had no liking for wars and turbulence; he preferred peace and quiet and the general prosperity which such conditions create.He liked to sit on that kind of eggs on his own private account as well as the nation's, and hatch them out and count up their result.When he died he left his heir 2,000,000 pounds, which was a most unusual fortune for a king to possess in those days.Columbus's great achievement gave him the discovery-fever, and he sent Sebastian Cabot to the New World to search out some foreign territory for England.That is Cabot's ship up there in the corner.This was the first time that England went far abroad to enlarge her estate--but not the last.
Henry VIII.; thirty-eight RED squares.(Fig.24.)That is Henry
