Excerpt from The Comprehensive History of England, Vol. 4: Civil and Military, Religious, Intellectual, and Social; From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Russian War; With Numerous Annotations From the Writings of Recent Distinguished Historians Ed ward, when the crown thus descended upon his head, had entered his tenth year, having been born, as before related, on the 12th of October, 1537. He had been brought up, as he tells us himself till he came to six years old, among the women. He was then placed under the tuition of Dr. Cox and Mr. Cheke, two well-learned men, who sought to bring him up in learning of tongues, of the Scripture, of philosophy, and all liberal sciences. Another of the persons intrusted with the direction of his education. 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.