Teks asli (Inggris)

PREFACE In these days of exactness even a child’s historical romance must point to what the French term its pièces justficatives.  We own that ours do not lie very deep.  The picture of Simon de Montfort drawn by his wife’s own household books, as quoted by Mrs. Everett Green in her Lives of the Princesses, and that of Edward I. in Carte’s History, and more recently in the Greatest of the Plantagenets, furnished the two chief influences of the story.  The household accounts show that Ea