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 CHAPTER X.

FROM THE DEATH OF KING JOHN TO THE ACCESSION OF RICHARD THE SECOND. 1216 TO 1399.

DEATH OF LLEWELLYN.

1. The reign of Henry the Third, who was only nine years of age when he succeeded his father, was a very long and a very unhappy one.

2. At first, things went on very well, because the king had a good guardian, the Earl of Pem