From the PREFACE.It is not pretended that this book is an exhaustive account of the Lost Possessions of England. Such an account might perhaps be written, but it could hardly be read. If, out of the scattered records of our other lost possessions, some meagre account were compiled, it would be interesting only to the descendants-lineal and regimental-of the gallant men who took part in them.This view was strongly held by the late Sir John Seeley,...