The Historians' History of the World: England, 1485-1642

Henry Smith Williams

Outlook Company, 1904 - World History

A CHARACTERISATION OF THE TUDOR AND STUART PERIODS	1

CHAPTER I	13

account of the Royal Progress 19 Relations with Scotland 20 The rebellion	24

War with France 25 The imposture of Perkin Warbeck 28 Parliaments in England	46

Knights picture of England at this period 48 Macaulays summing up	53

Scotland joins France 59 The war with France 60 Henry VIII	86

War with Scotland 88 The people resist exaction 90 The emperor at war with	94

faith against Luther 98 The king tires of his queen 100 Easy methods of divorce	103

of Marys guilt 323 Various opinions of Marys guilt	325

put in possession of the English 330 The parliament of 1563 331 The loss of Havre	333

The excommunication of Elizabeth and the parliament of 1571 341 The Puri	340

CHAPTER XI	356

Marys appeal to Elizabeth 357 Conspiracies against Elizabeth 358 The volun	366

CHAPTER XII	382

CHAPTER XIII	405

CHAPTER XIV	442

opposition to Henrys plans 111 The legatine court and the queens trial 112 Wolsey	118

Persecution for heresy 124 The kings debts repudiated 124 Appeal to the univer	129

rise of Cranmer 135 Cranmer annuls the marriage 137 Froudes account of Anne	155

Anne under arrest 165 Anne tried and condemned 168 Cranmer divorces Anne	172

and death of Jane 179 The tractable parliament 181 Act for the king to make	186

The king marries Anne of Cleves 187 The end of Cromwell 189 Henry divorces	201

Seymour and Elizabeth 211 Popular discontent and insurrections	220

Northumberland in power 222 Mary and Elizabeth 223 Religious persecutions	224

CHAPTER VII	233

plan and Wyatts insurrection 236 Execution of Lady Jane Grey 238 Elizabeth	244

The last days of Cranmer 254 Macaulays estimate of Cranmer	256

ment of dead bodies 259 War with France 259 Death of Queen Mary 261	266

the pope of her accession? 272 Reestablishment of the Protestant religion 273	289

Suitors of Mary Queen of Scots 299 Darnley in Scotland 300 Darnleys	296

marriage and the rebellion 302 The murder of Rizzio 303 The murder of Darnley	305

Marys flight to England 315 The casket letters and Murray sonnets	319

ELIZABETHAN COMMERCE ART AND LITERATURE	455

Elizabethan literature 462 Beginnings of drama 463 Edmund Spenser 465 William	467

The Main and the Bye plots 472 The Hampton Court conference	474

Persecutions of the Catholics and the Gunpowder plot 476 The new penal code against	488

First settlement of Virginia 489 Charter of the East India Company 491 Affairs	514

Haringtons account of a court fête 519 General state of society 521 London manners	521

CHAPTER XVIII	534

peachment of Buckingham 541 The forced loan and the war with France 543	557

The reassembly and dissolution of the third parliament 1629 558 Violence in the house	563

in Scotland 573 The tables the covenant the episcopal war 574 The short par	592

The grand remonstrance 610 The king tries to arrest the five members	614

The declarations of parliament and the nineteen propositions 623 Preparations	622

BRIEF REFERENCELIST OF AUTHORITIES BY CHAPTERS	629

A CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND from 1485 тo 1642 a d	635

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Title	The Historians' History of the World: England, 1485-1642 Volume 19 of The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations as Recorded by Over Two Thousand of the Great Writers of All Ages, Henry Smith Williams
Editor	Henry Smith Williams
Publisher	Outlook Company, 1904
Original from	Indiana University
Digitized	23 Mar 2009

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