ENGLISH POPULAR LEADERS

I.

STEPHEN LANGTON

BY

C. EDMUND MAURICE

'Great men are set like diamonds in the world,
of whom the vulgar are ever the first to perceive
the flaws'
Life of Wolsey, by CAVENDISH

SECOND EDITION

LONDON

HENRY S. KING & Co., 65 CORNHILL

1872

LONDON: PRINTED BY

AND Co., NEW-STREET SQUARE

SPOTTISWOODE

AND PARLIAMENT STREET

Reed May 14. 1877.
25, 813

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DEDICATION.

Because, whatever may be due to other Teachers,

IT IS TO MY FATHER ALONE

that I owe any insight into History that I may have gained, I place on this page a Dedication which might otherwise seem superfluous.