_First Edition, Demy 8vo, November_ 1877; _Reprinted December_ 1877, 1881, 1885, 1890. _Eversley Edition,_ 1895. London MacMillan and Co. and New York 1895 The death of John changed the whole face of English affairs. His son, Henry of Winchester, was but nine years old, and the pity which was stirred by the child's helplessness was aided by a sense of injustice in burthening him with the iniquity of his father. At his death John had driven from his side even the most loyal of his barons; but William Marshal had clung to him to the last, and with him was Gualo, the Legate of Innocent's successor, Honorius the Third. The position of Gualo as representative of the Papal overlord of the realm w…
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