Transcriber's Note.
Apparent typographical errors have been corrected. The use of hyphenshas been rationalised.
Notices of other books in the series have been moved to the end of thetext.
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
LONDON
G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.
1914
INTRODUCTION
Thisseries of English History Source Books is intendedfor use with any ordinary textbook of English History.Experience has conclusively shown that such apparatus isa valuable—nay, an indispensable—adjunct to the historylesson. It is capable of two main uses: either by way oflively illustration at the close of a lesson, or by way of inference-drawing,before the textbook is read, at the beginningof the lesson. The kind of problems and exercises that maybe based on the documents are legion, and are admirablyillustrated in a History of England for Schools, Part I., byKeatinge and Frazer, pp. 377-381. However, we have nowish to prescribe for the teacher the manner in which he shallexercise his craft, but simply to provide him and his pupilswith materials hitherto not readily accessible for schoolpurposes. The very moderate price of the books in thisseries should bring them within the reach of every secondaryschool. Source books enable the pupil to take a more activepart than hitherto in the history lesson. Here is the apparatus,the raw material: its use we leave to teacher andtaught.
Our belief is that the books may profitably be used by allgrades of historical students between the standards of fourth-formboys in secondary schools and undergraduates at Universities.What differentiates students at one extreme fromthose at the other is not so much the kind of subject-matterdealt with, as the amount they can read into or extractfrom it.
In regard to choice of subject-matter, while trying to satisfythe natural demand for certain "stock" documents of vitalimportance, we hope to introduce much fresh and novel matter.{vi}It is our intention that the majority of the extracts should belively in style—that is, personal, or descriptive, or rhetorical,or even strongly partisan—and should not so much profess togive the truth as supply data for inference. We aim at thegreatest possible variety, and lay under contribution letters,biographies, ballads and poems, diaries, debates, and newspaperaccounts. Economics, London, municipal, and sociallife generally, and local history, are represented in these pages.
The order of the extracts is strictly chronological, eachbeing numbered, titled, and dated, and its authority given.The text is modernised, where necessary, to the extent ofleaving no difficulties in reading.
We shall be most grateful to teachers and students whomay send us suggestions for improvement.
NOTE TO THIS VOLUME
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