I. GENEALOGICAL TABLE OF THE KINGS OF FRANCE FROM PHILIP III. TO CHARLES VII. (In Illustration of the Wars between England and France.) PHILIP III., king, 1270-1285. L.-GENEALOGICAL TABLE OF THE HOUSE OF STUART. CHARLES II., b. May 29, 1630 acc. 1649 (1660); d. Feb. 6, 1685. m. Catharine of Braganza. b. April 30, 1662; acc. 1689; d. Dec. 8, 1694. m. William, prince of Orange (WILLIAM III.). Charles Edward Stuart (the younger Pretender) b. 1721; d. 1788. Henry Benedict, cardinal York, d. at Rome 1807. M.-GENEALOGICAL TABLE OF THE HOUSE OF BRUNSWICK. GEORGE I. (son of the duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, afterwards elector of Hanover, and Sophia, youngest child of the elector palatine and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James I. See Table L), b. May 23, 1660; acc. 1714; d. June 11, 1727. m. Sophia Dorothy of Zelle. Charlotte, (no curv. issue). 2. princess Alexandra of Denmark, March 10. 1863. Arthur. duke of Connaught, b. May 1, 1850. Louise Margaret of Prussia, March 13 1879. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. Note I., page 234. America first appears in the history of England at the close of the fifteenth century. When Columbus, disappointed, was about to leave Portugal for Spain, he sent his brother Bartholomew to ask assistance of the British monarch, Henry VII. The application was not made until several years had elapsed; and when Henry sent Bartholomew to invite his brother to England, Christopher had returned from his brilliant first voyage of discovery. King Henry, early in 1498, gave Sebastian Cabot, one of his subjects, a commission to go on a voyage of discovery, and furnished two small vessels for the purpose. Cabot first saw the North American continent at Labrador in June, 1498. Columbus discovered the South American continent a few weeks later. To England belongs the honour of furnishing the first discoverer of the North American continent. Note II., page 316. Some Huguenots, returning to France from the coast of South Carolina in a small brigantine, were rescued from their capsized vessel floating near the English shores. They were nearly starved. Taken before queen Elizabeth, they gave such an account of the beautiful country they had left that an intense desire was created among the English to colonize that region. In 1584, the queen gave Walter Raleigh a commission to send an expedition to America. Two ships, fitted out by him, sailed for the pleasant region described by the wrecked Huguenots. They touched land a little farther north, on the coast of North Carolina. The commanders of the two vessels, on returning to England, gave glowing accounts of the beauty of the region they had visited. Raleigh afterwards attempted to colonize the country, which was |