THE

H I STORY

OF THE

R E IGN

OF THE

EMPEROR CHARLES V.

WITH

A VIEW of the PROGRESS of SOCIETY in
EUROPE, from the Subversion of the ROMAN EMPIRE,

to the Beginning of the Sixteenth CENTURY.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

By WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D."
Principal of the University of EDINBURGH, and Histo-

RIOGRAPHER to his MAJESTY for Scotland.

A NEW EDITION.

VOL. I,

L O N D ON:
Printed for W. STRAHAN; T. CADELL, in the
Strand; and J. BALFOUR, at Edinburgh,

MDCCLXXVII,