The History of England From the Earliest Times to the Final Establishment of the Reformation, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The History of England From the Earliest Times to the Final Establishment of the Reformation, Vol. 2 Henry the Eighth ascended the throne of England on the day of his father's death. He was the first prince for more than a century who ruled the kingdom with an undisputed title. Every other monarch, since the deposition of Richard the Second, had been accounted an usurper by a portion of the people. Henry united in himself the titles of York and Lancaster. He had no visible competitor for the crown, nor was he disquieted by the shadow of a pretender, for the descendants of John of Gaunt through the royal families of the Spanish peninsula never having disturbed England by setting up pretensions, cannot with propriety be called pretenders. Their claims, forgotten perhaps by themselves, and obstructed by the formidable impediments of distance and language, were scarcely legible by the keen eye of the most peering genealogist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.