Makers of History
Richard I.
By JACOB ABBOTT
WITH ENGRAVINGS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1902
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eighthundred and fifty-seven, by
Harper & Brothers,
in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of
New York.
Copyright, 1885, by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott,
Lyman Abbott, and Edward Abbott.
PREFACE.
The author of this series has made it his special object to confinehimself very strictly, even in the most minute details which herecords, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded uponhistory, but history itself, without any embellishment, or anydeviations from the strict truth so far as it can now be discovered byan attentive examination of the annals written at the time when theevents themselves occurred. In writing the narratives, the author hasendeavored to avail himself of the best sources of information whichthis country affords; and though, of course, there must be in thesevolumes, as in all historical accounts, more or less of imperfectionand error, there is no intentional embellishment. Nothing is stated,not even the most minute and apparently imaginary details, withoutwhat was deemed good historical authority. The readers, therefore, mayrely upon the record as the truth, and nothing but the truth, so faras an honest purpose and a careful examination have been effectual inascertaining it.