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 BELL'S ENGLISH HISTORY SOURCE BOOKS

 _General Editors_: S. E. WINBOLT, M.A., and KENNETH BELL, M.A.


 THE GROWTH OF PARLIAMENT
 AND THE WAR WITH SCOTLAND
 (1216-1307)


 BY
 W. D. ROBIESON, M.A.
 ASSISTANT TO THE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW


 [Illustration]


 LONDON
 G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.
 1914




INTRODUCTION


This series of English History Source Books is intended for use with any
ordinary textbook of English History. Experience has conclusively shown
that such apparatus is a valuable--nay, an indispensable--adjunct to the
history lesson. It is capable of two main uses: either by way of lively
illustration at the close of a lesson, or by way of inference-drawing,
before the textbook is read, at the beginning of the lesson. The kind of
problems and exercises that may be based on the documents are legion,
and are admirably illustrated in a _History of England for Schools_,
Part I., by Keatinge and Frazer, pp. 377-381. However, we have no wish
to prescribe for the teacher the manner in which he shall exercise his
craft, but simply to provide him and his pupils with materials hitherto
not readily accessible for school purposes. The very moderate price of
the books in this series should bring them within the reach of every
secondary school. Source books enable the pupil to take a more active
part than hitherto in the history lesson. Here is the apparatus, the raw
material: its use we leave to teacher and taught.

Our belief is that the books may profitably be used by all grades of
historical students between the standards of fourth-form boys in
secondary schools and undergraduates at Universities. What
differentiates students at one extreme from those at the other is not so
much the kind of subject-matter dealt with, as the amount they can read
into or extract from it.

In regard to choice of subject-matter, while trying to satisfy the
natural demand for certain "stock" documents of vital importance, we
hope to introduce much fresh and novel matter. It is our intention that
the majority of the extracts should be lively in style--that is,
personal, or descriptive, or rhetorical, or even strongly partisan--and
should not so much profess to give the truth as supply data for
inference. We aim at the greatest possible variety, and lay under
contribution letters, biographies, ballads and poems, diaries, debates,
and newspaper accounts. Economics, London, municipal, and social life
generally, and local history, are represented in these pages.

The order of the extracts is strictly chronological, each being
numbered, titled, and dated, and its authority given. The text is
modernised, where necessary, to the extent of leaving no difficulties in
reading.

We shall be most grateful to teachers and students who may send us
suggestions for improvement.

 S. E. WINBOLT.
 KENNETH BELL.


NOTE TO THIS VOLUME

I am indebted to Messrs. MacLehose and Co. for permission to reprint two
passages from Sir Herbert Maxwell's translation of the "Chronicle of
Lanercost," which appeared in the _Scottish Historical Review_.

 W. D. R.

 GLASGOW,
 _January, 1914_




TABLE OF CONTENTS


                                                                    PAGE

       INTRODUCTION                                                    v

 DATE

 1216. CORONATION OF HENRY III.           _Roger of Wendover_          1

 1217. THE FAIR OF LINCOLN                _Annals of Dunstable_        2

 1217. THE BATTLE OF SANDWICH             _Histoire des Ducs_          4

 1217. WHY LOUIS WAS UNSUCCESSFUL
         IN ENGLAND                       _Canon of Barnwell_          5

 1217. CHARTER OF THE FOREST              _Statutes of the Realm_      5

 1223. A WRESTLING-MATCH AND
         DISTURBANCES IN LONDON           _Annals of Dunstable_        9

 1224. THE COMING OF THE FRIARS           _Monumenta Franc