Chas. Kingsley"s "Hereward the Wake."
Scott"s "Talisman."
Maurice Hewlett"s "Richard Yea and Nay."
Read the story of the murder of Thomas a Becket from Dean Stanley"s "Memorials of Canterbury." Have some one who has seen the Domesday Book and the Magna Charta describe them.
IV
HENRY III AND THE FIRST TWO EDWARDS
Papers,--
1. The Universities and the Friars.
Roger Bacon.
2. The Guilds and Fairs.
3. The Jews in England.
Arrival, Special Laws, Famous Jews in English history.
4. The English Parliament.
Places where it has met.
Compare with our form of government.
Describe present buildings.
5. Wallace and Bruce.
Suggested Readings,--
Marlowe"s "Edward II."
Jusserand"s "Way-faring Life in the Middle Ages."
Jessopp"s "Coming of the Friars."
Jane Porter"s "Scottish Chiefs."
V
EDWARD III
Papers,--
1. Edward and Scotland.
Death of Bruce, Balliol.
2. Edward and France.
Crecy, Calais, Poitiers.
3. The Black Prince.
The Black Death.
4. Wiclif.
Story of the English Bible. Lollardy.
5. Chancer.
Mediaeval Romances.
The Troubadours.
Suggested Readings,--
Froissart"s Chronicle.
Chaucer"s "Canterbury Tales."
VI
RICHARD II AND RICHARD III
Papers,--
1. The Peasants" Revolt.
Langland"s "Piers Plowman."
2. Henry IV and Henry V.
Their characters, their Queens.
Agincourt.
3. Henry VI
The Wars of the Roses.
4. Joan of Arc.
5. Edward IV and Richard III.
"Warwick, the Kingmaker."
The Princes in the Tower.
Caxton.
Suggested Readings,--