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The Minority of Henry III.—Part II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

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Three years ago I read a paper to this Society on the subject of the minority of Henry III. Part of that paper was published in a somewhat enlarged form in the ‘Transactions’ of the Society for 1904, and part was reserved for publication in a subsequent volume. To-night I shall read some introductory words which I was then obliged to omit They are concerned partly with the authorities for the period, and partly with the state of political feeling in the early years of the reign.

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