Excerpt from The Greatest of All the Plantagenets: An Historical Sketch Tre spirit of investigation which has, of late years, pervaded much of our historical literature, has worked many changes in the position and esti mation of some of the most prominent characters in English history. Henry VIII. And Elizabeth, Crom well and William III., Marlborough and William Penn, do not occupy, with us, the same places which they occupied at the beginning of the present cen tury. The historians of the last age have come to be regarded as not altogether Well informed and as being, in many instances, under the dominion of party or national prejudices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.