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Excerpt from The Barons' War: Including the Battles of Lewes and Evesham The distant view of the Castle and Battle Field of Lewes having led the Author to examine, with additional interest, the causes and circum stances of the great event which has given them a place in history, he felt that the mere details of a sanguinary contest would be unsatisfactory, unless, in some degree, illustrated by the manners and temper of the times, as well as by the characters and motives of the chief actors. He has not there fore scrupled to digress widely with that object, and the intended narrative of a day has insensibly swelled into a sketch of many years; but on con sidering the importance of that period of British history, it did not appear that justice would other wise be done to the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.