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Pictures from “England” by John Richard Green, LL.D., in the Peter Fenelon Collier “Nations of the World” series, 1898.
John Richard Green (1837 – 1883) wrote a number of history books; I have also A Short History of England.
This book is in four small volumes with four illustrations in each.
Title: England
Published by: Peter Fenelon Collier
City: New York
Date: 1898
Total items: 2
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: The Tower of London]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Green-England/wm/big/vol1-000-frontispiece-Tower-of-London-q75-297x200.jpg "[picture: The Tower of London]")
“London [...] was secured [for William] by the erection of a fortress which afterward grew into the Tower, but William desired to reign not as a conqueror but as a lawful king. At Christmas [A.D. 1066] he received the crown at Westminster from the hands of Archbishop Ealdred amid shouts of [...] [more...]
[$]![[picture: New Oxford and the Hundred Clerks]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Green-England/wm/big/vol1-0168-New-Oxford-and-the-Hundred-Clerks-q75-135x200.jpg "[picture: New Oxford and the Hundred Clerks]")
New Oxford and the Hundred Clerks
I couldn’t find reference to the uprising referred to in this image. The 100 clerks, or friars perhaps, appear to be praying.
[$]Pictures from “England” by John Richard Green, LL.D., in the Peter Fenelon Collier “Nations of the World” series, 1898.
John Richard Green (1837 – 1883) wrote a number of history books; I have also A Short History of England.
This book is in four small volumes with four illustrations in each.
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