Excerpt from The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, and of the Age in Which He Lived, Vol. 1 of 5: To Which Is Prefixed a History of the Revolutions of England, From the Death of Edward the Confessor to the Birth of Henry the Second We are not indeed fo intimately concerned in the tranfaetions of more remote times, as in thofe of the prefent or the lafc century; but, if we can attend, with an eager fenfe of de light, to the accounts We find, in ancient Writers, of the earlief'c ages of the Roman te public, the ae'ts of thofe mighty princes, who rendered this kingdom illufcrious 111 Europe. 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.