Makers of History
Richard II.
By JACOB ABBOTT
WITH ENGRAVINGS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1901
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-eight, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.
Copyright, 1886, by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott, Lyman
Abbott, and Edward Abbott.
PARLEY WITH THE INSURGENTS.PREFACE.
King Richard the Second lived in the days when the chivalry of feudaltimes was in all its glory. His father, the Black Prince; his uncles,the sons of Edward the Third, and his ancestors in a long line,extending back to the days of Richard the First, were among the mostillustrious knights of Europe in those days, and their history aboundsin the wonderful exploits, the narrow escapes, and the romanticadventures, for which the knights errant of the Middle Ages were sorenowned. This volume takes up the story of English history at thedeath of Richard the First, and continues it to the time of thedeposition and death of Richard the Second, with a view of presentingas complete a picture as is possible, within such limits, of the ideasand principles, the manners and customs, and the extraordinarymilitary undertakings and exploits of that wonderful age.