Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 286
ii:ep>l2en, (■154 refused To account himself other than very ill-used ;And as England elected him, daughter MatildaFound nothing but title-deeds whereon to build aFirm throne for her race, through nineteen troubled years.When Stephen, the winning but weak, calmed her fears … .Vrms of Stephen. 266 ENGLISH KINGS IN A NUTSHELL. [February, By departing this life ; and her own boy was reckonedThe sole King of England, as Of legal repute, with nothing to fleck itBut the ill-advised murder of Thomas aBecket. His youngest son bad, and his oldestdeparted. In the year…
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