DR. CHARLES MORTON, M.D., F.S.A., LIBRARIAN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. A NEW EDITION, REVISED BY HENRY REEVE, Esq., F.S.A. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME I. "A wicked messenger falleth into mischief, but a faithful ambassador is health." PROVERBS xiii. 17. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. 1855. TO MONSIEUR GUIZOT, MEMBRE DE L'ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE. MY DEAR SIR, I have the pleasure to present to you this New Edition of a Work already well known to your researches, as a slight acknowledgment of the eminent services you have rendered to the History of the Commonwealth of England both at home and abroad, and as a mark of the constant respect and attachment with which |