Essays on the history of England from William I to Henry VII

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Richard 2d 1377 Richard 2d King of England was the Son of Edward the Black Prince, and Joan the fair Maid of Kent, Daughter to the Earl of Kent, and Grand Daughter to Edward the 1st Richard succeeded his Grand-Father Edward the 3 on the 21st of June 1377 at Eleven years of age - The Parliament appointed, His three Uncles, with some of the Nobility to be regents of the Kingdom, A truce which had been agreed to with France Being now expired, The French sent a fleet to ravage the coast of England, & the regents ordered

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