Richard I

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Makers of History

Richard I.

BY JACOB ABBOTT

WITH ENGRAVINGS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER &BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

1902

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-seven, by

HARPER &BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District

of New York.

Copyright, 1885, by BENJAMIN VAUGHAN ABBOTT, AUSTIN ABBOTT,

LYMAN ABBOTT, and EDWARD ABBOTT.

PREFACE.

The author of this series has made it his special object to confine himself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history, but history itself, without any embellishment, or any deviations from the strict truth so far as it can now be discovered by an attentive examination of the annals written at the time when the events themselves occurred. In writing the narratives, the author has endeavored to avail himself of the best sources of information which this country affords; and though, of course, there must be in these volumes, as in all historical accounts, more or less of imperfection and error, there is no intentional embellishment. Nothing is stated, not even the most minute and apparently imaginary details, without what was deemed good historical authority. The readers, therefore, may rely upon the record as the truth, and nothing but the truth, so far as an honest purpose and a careful examination have been effectual in ascertaining it.

KING RICHARD I.