The King was assembling a considerable army with a view of fighting
one great battle for his crown; but passing from Lynne to
Lincolnshire, his road lay along the sea-shore, which was overflowed
at high water; and not choosing the proper time for his journey, he
lost in the inundation all his carriages, treasure, baggage, and
regalia. The affliction of this disaster, and vexation from the
distracted state of his affairs, increased the sickness under which he
then labored; and though he reached the castle of Newark, he was
obliged to halt there, and his distemper soon after put an end to his
life, in the forty-ninth year of his age and eighteenth of his reign,
and freed the nation from the dangers to which it was equally exposed
by his success or by his misfortunes.




THE GOLDEN BULL, "HUNGARY'S MAGNA CHARTA," SIGNED

A.D. _1222_

E.O.S.



During the century preceding the reign of Andrew II, King of
Hungary, which began in 1205, that country had been engaged
in frequent wars with Venice over the possession of
Dalmatia, but no event of recent years had given much
importance to Hungarian history. The reign of Andrew began