A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)

The Project Gutenberg eBook of A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6), by Leopold von Ranke This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) Author: Leopold von Ranke Release Date: April 9, 2009 [eBook #28546] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A HISTORY OF ENGLAND PRINCIPALLY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, VOLUME I (OF 6)*** E-text prepared by Paul Dring, Frank van Drogen, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) A HISTORY OF ENGLAND PRINCIPALLY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BY LEOPOLD VON RANKE VOLUME I PREFACE. Once more I come before the public with a work on the history of a nation which is not mine by birth. It is the ambition of all nations which enjoy a literary culture to possess a harmonious and vivid narrative of their own past history.