The Eighteen Christian Centuries

The Eighteen Christian Centuries is by the Rev. James White, and its contents list is arranged by century, naming, among others, First Century, The Bad Emperors and Second Century, The Good Emperors. The author writes that the accounts given of the siege of Jerusalem transcend in horror all other records of human sorrow. The author says it was at the great annual feast of the Passover, when Jews from all parts of the world flocked to the capital of their nation to worship in the Temple.

The author says that Henry knew but one man in his dominions able to contend in talent and acuteness with the advocates of the Church, and that was his chancellor and friend, the gay and generous and affectionate à-Beckett. The author says high pretensions were put forward by the clergy: they insisted upon the introduction of the canon laws and claimed exemption from trial by civil process. The author says that the seigneur visited his castle for a month or two in the year, but it was to embitter the countryman's lot by the contrast.