Digital Scan on CD: Stephen Langton; or the days of King John,

by Martin F Tupper

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London: WARD, LOCK, & TYLER, 1875 Title: Stephen Langton; or the days of King John, 1875 This is a scanned copy of the original book containing both searchable text and the original graphics. It is provided as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, you can search for names, places and items which may not be in the index. Author: Martin Farquhar TUPPER (M: 1810 Jul 17 - 1889 Nov 29) Published: LONDON: WARD, LOCK, & TYLER. GUILDFORD: ANDREWS & SON. 1875. This eBook can be Purchased: * on CD by Post from either Biblio or my online shop majesticmole * or at a reduced price as a downloadable PDF eBook from , my online shop , from lulu,or from youpublish If purchased for postal delivery the file(s) are provided on a CD. Ships from the UK. Posted 1st Class. Air Mail outside UK. You will receive confirmation email on dispatch. Description: PREFACE. My object in writing STEPHAN LANGTON were, first, to add a new interest to Albury and its neighbourhood, by representing truly and historically our aspects in the reign of King John ; next, to bring to modern memory the grand character of a great and good Archbishop who long antedated Luther in his opposition to Popery, and who stood up for English freedom, culminating in Magna Charta, many centuries before these our latter days : thirdly, to clear my brain of numerous fancies and pictures, as only the writing of another book could do that. Its seed is truly recorded in the first chapter, as to the two stone coffins still in the chancel of St. Martha's. I began the book on November 26th, 1857, and finished it in exactly eight weeks, on January 21st, 1858; reading for the work included : in two months more it was printed by Hurst and Blackett: I intended it for one full volume, but the publishers preferred to issue it in two scant ones: it has since been reproduced as one railway book by "Ward and Lock. Mr. Drummond let me have the run of his famous historical library at Albury for purposes of reference, &c, beyond what I had in my own : and I consulted and partially read for accurate pictures of John's time in England, the histories of Tyrrell, Hollingshed, Hume, Poole, Markland; Thomson's Magna Charta, James's Philip Augustus, Milman's Latin Christianity, Hallam's Middle Ages, Maimbourg's Lives of the Popes, Banke's Life of Innocent the Third, Maitland on the Dark Ages, Eitson's life of Eobin Hood; Salmon's, Bray's, and Brayley's Surrey; Tupper's, and Duncan's Guernsey; besides the British, and National, and other Encyclopaedias and Dictionaries, as required. It was a work of hard and quick and fervid labour, not an idling piece of mere brain-spinning; and it may be depended upon for archaeological accuracy in every detail. More than thirty localities in our beautiful county Surrey are word-painted in the book: of other parts of England, twelve : of France and Italy, twelve ; there are more than twenty historical characters honestly (as I think) depicted : and some fifteen ideal ones fairly enough invented as accessories. I preferred Stephan to the commoner Stephen,— for etymological and archaeological reasons : it is clearly nearer to the Greek, and is so spelt in ancient records. The book has had good success; some seven thousand being circulated in England, and (with of course the usual differences from the literary organs of rival publishers) it has been on the whole very favourably received by the critical press. As in the case of all my other works, America has reproduced it largely,—and numerous kindly letters to the author have from time to time been his reward. There may be some interest to a reader in the mention that the above accurate detail of small facts concerning the composition of my Stephan Langton is extracted from one of my literary Manuscript Archive books ; now numbering eighteen volumes (folio or large quarto) and full of all the newspaper cuttings, and magazine reviews, notices and allusions which I could readily obtain from time to time as they appeared. It is curious, and instructive to juvenile authorship, to observe in this large collection, how strangely diverse in numerous instances are the verdicts of our self-styled judges of literature about the very same passages, condemned and applauded by some and others of them with a marvellous inconsistency. According to partizanship in politics and religion, an author seems to be systematically praised or blamed, not for his own qualities, but according to the accidents of the critical review which affects to judge him: and as the present writer has frequently for the merits or demerits of the same work been posted highest and lowest and intermediately, he naturally agrees with a discerning public that such conflicting dicta cannot after all be of any abiding consequence. The former English Editions having long been out of print, and the work being still frequently asked for, I have entrusted it once more as thus to Messrs. ANDREWS, my local publishers in Guildford, assured that it will be brought out with all due care and excellence, and hoping for another good success. MARTIN F. TUPPER. ALBURY HOUSE, June, 1875. Language: English This is a scanned copy of the original book containing both searchable text and the original graphics. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. The text interpretation by optical scanning of the document may not be a precise interpretation of the written text. Users should refer to the scanned image to validate the interpretation of the material. This eBook is provided as a searchable PDF document (Acrobat format Document) and so you can search for names, places and items many of which are not indexed in the normal index. The Adobe™ Acrobat™ (.pdf) format requires the FREE Adobe™ Acrobat™ Reader . Download and installation instructions for the Adobe™ Acrobat™ Reader are on the Adobe™ website. This reader allows the viewing and printing of the book. Other books, maps, eBooks can also be bought at: * my personal web site for eBooks and genealogical materials majesticmole * at lulu for downloadble eBooks. There is one PDF file, in black and white. This file is approximately 24MB. There are 266 pages (including blanks, title and advertising) in the original book. 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