From the Defeat of the Armada to the With an Account of English Institutions LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 55 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 1926 DA 355 .052 Сараг COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 6.24-40 41277 V.2 PREFACE TO VOLUME II THE long period that has intervened between the ap pearance of the first and the present volume of this work is due in part to causes connected with the war, in part to more personal exigencies. It has brought one partial compensation, the opportunity to make use of other studies in the period published during the decade, for which acknowledgment is here duly made. There has been, unfortunately, no possibility of utilizing that which has appeared on subjects covered in the first volume. The absence in this volume of the Bibliography promised in the Preface to Volume I is due to the anticipated early appearance of the general Bibliography of English History of the Tudor period being prepared by a group of American scholars parallel to the Bibliography of the Stuart period in preparation by a group of British scholars. This larger work will make a special bibliography of materials used in this book of relatively little value. The promise of the subtitle and the Preface, also, that this work will include a description of English institutions in its period, would seem to have been but poorly carried out when the organization of the church, the universities and schools, the Inns of Court, and so many aspects of intellectual and social life have not been described. The author can only plead the limitations of time, the extent of the task, the need of a larger canvas on which to paint a picture including so much detail. EDWARD P. CHEYNEY UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1925 |