England

Iris Macfarlane describes how the Malabar coast in western India was the earliest scene of European sea-borne trade.

John B. Morrall describes how the ideals of monarchy came to be combined with the theory of Natural Common Law.

William Noblett profiles Newbery; Goldsmith’s friend and financial aide was the first English publisher to make a lucrative business out of producing books designed for children.

John Nowell introduces and translates a contemporary portrait of the eighteenth-century actor at work, originally penned by G.C. Lichtenberg.

Clifton W. Potter profiles the leader of the Parliamentary Jacobites in the early eighteenth century.

Norman Lloyd Williams analyses the observations of Etienne Perlin during his visit in 1553.

Leonard W. Cowie visits this splendid structure, which Inigo Jones began to raise for King James I in 1619, and which is still one of London’s most perfectly proportioned buildings.

Howard Shaw describes how, during the reign of the Virgin Queen, offices, wardships, pensions, leases, monopolies and titles of honour were distributed to the servants of the Crown.

Harold F. Hutchison describes how the tastes and affections of King Edward II were disgusting to the medieval orthodoxy of monks and barons.

Stephen Usherwood describes how an Asiatic flea, living as a parasite upon black rats, caused as many as 100,000 deaths during the summer and autumn of 1665.