HISTORY OF

KING HENRY THE FOURTH.

PART II.

EDITED, WITH NOTES,

BY

WILLIAM J. ROLFE, A.M.,

FORMERLY HEAD MASTEr of the HIGH SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

WITH ENGRAVINGS.

ΕΧΟΝΤΕΣ ΔΙΑΔΩΣΟΥ

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1880.

ENGLISH

CLASSICS.

EDITED BY WM. J. ROLFE, A.M.

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PREFACE.

SOME of the illustrations perhaps call for a few words of explanation. The view of Eastcheap (p. 8) illustrates the street architecture of the time. The neighbouring church of St. Michael, Cornhill, is shown as it then appeared, on the authority of an old drawing engraved in the Londina Illustrata. The tower was taken down in 1421, and the church was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. The street views on pp. 54 and 119 are also illustrative of the London of that day. In the latter we see the north transept of Westminster Abbey, which was then the principal entrance, the western portion of the church being unfinished. The houses that hemmed it in were not cleared away until a comparatively recent date. The view of "Paul's Walk" on p. 35 will give an idea of the long nave of the grand old cathedral, and of its "base uses" as "an house of merchandise." The scene in Coventry (p. 30) shows St. Michael's and Trinity churches, with one of the ancient “pageants" going on in the foreground. Shakespeare in his boyhood may have seen such a performance, as the exhibitions were not suppressed until 1580. The noble spire of St. Michael's, 303 feet high, was old even then, having been finished in 1395. Trinity Church was built in the 13th century, but the present spire was erected in 1664-7 to replace the original one blown down in 1664. The portrait of Sir William Gascoigne (p. 53) represents him in his judicial robes, and is taken from his monument in Harwood Church, Yorkshire. All these illustrations are from Knight's Pictorial Shakspere.

Cambridge, March 1, 1880.