The History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Restoration (1603-1660) |
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... SCOTTISH NATIONAL COVENANT AND THE SHORT PARLIAMENT . Peculiar conditions of Scotland 191 193 194 • 195 196 . 197 198 199 201 203 1636 . The new Service Book 23 July , 1637 . The Edinburgh riots 26 Feb. , 1638 . The National Covenant ...
... SCOTTISH NATIONAL COVENANT AND THE SHORT PARLIAMENT . Peculiar conditions of Scotland 191 193 194 • 195 196 . 197 198 199 201 203 1636 . The new Service Book 23 July , 1637 . The Edinburgh riots 26 Feb. , 1638 . The National Covenant ...
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... Scottish army enters England Royalist reverses in the north Battle of Cropredy Bridge • 293 294 295 296 I July . Rupert relieves York 2 July . Battle of Marston Moor 16 July . Surrender of York 31 Aug. The surrender at Lostwithiel 27 ...
... Scottish army enters England Royalist reverses in the north Battle of Cropredy Bridge • 293 294 295 296 I July . Rupert relieves York 2 July . Battle of Marston Moor 16 July . Surrender of York 31 Aug. The surrender at Lostwithiel 27 ...
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... Scottish terms Foreign relations . 2 Aug. Battle of Rathmines Cromwell in Ireland He storms Drogheda and Wexford English rising in Munster • 9 May , 1650. Cromwell repulsed at Clonmel He leaves Ireland I May . Charles II . agrees to the ...
... Scottish terms Foreign relations . 2 Aug. Battle of Rathmines Cromwell in Ireland He storms Drogheda and Wexford English rising in Munster • 9 May , 1650. Cromwell repulsed at Clonmel He leaves Ireland I May . Charles II . agrees to the ...
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... Scottish history · Ireland • 483 484 485 • 486 487 488 • 489 490 491 492 493 MAPS . ( AT THE END OF THE VOLUME . ) 1. England and Wales to illustrate the Civil War . 2. Scotland to illustrate the distribution of Highland Clans and the ...
... Scottish history · Ireland • 483 484 485 • 486 487 488 • 489 490 491 492 493 MAPS . ( AT THE END OF THE VOLUME . ) 1. England and Wales to illustrate the Civil War . 2. Scotland to illustrate the distribution of Highland Clans and the ...
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... Scottish and the English Churches . Although he cannot be said to have approved himself a great king , he had displayed astuteness and energy enough to justify the opinion that he would be successful in ruling England , and that the ...
... Scottish and the English Churches . Although he cannot be said to have approved himself a great king , he had displayed astuteness and energy enough to justify the opinion that he would be successful in ruling England , and that the ...
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Page 261 - May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and humbly beg your Majesty's pardon, that I cannot give any other answer than this to what your Majesty is pleased to demand of me.
Page 479 - that according to the ancient and fundamental laws of this Kingdom, the government is, and ought to be, by King, Lords, and Commons.
Page 11 - If you aim at a Scottish Presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy as God and the devil. Then Jack, and Tom, and Will, and Dick, shall meet, and at their pleasure censure me and my council, and all our proceedings ; then Will shall stand up and say, It must be thus ; then Dick shall reply, Nay, marry, but we will have it thus.
Page 350 - And truly I desire their Liberty and Freedom, as much as any Body whomsoever ; but I must tell you, That their Liberty and Freedom consists in having of Government, those Laws by which their Life and their Goods may be most their own. It is not for having share in Government (Sirs) that is nothing pertaining to them. A Subject and a Sovereign are clean different things...
Page 397 - O Sir Henry Vane, Sir Henry Vane, the Lord deliver me from Sir Henry Vane.
Page 261 - since I see all the birds are flown, I do expect from you that you shall send them unto me as soon as they return hither. But I assure you, on the word of a King, I never did intend any force, but shall proceed against them in a legal and fair way, for I never meant any other.
Page 182 - I pray God bless him to carry it so that the Church may have honour, and the State service and content by it. And now, if the Church will not hold up themselves, under God I can do no more.
Page 105 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Page 16 - What cause we your poor Commons have to watch over our privileges is manifest in itself to all men. The prerogatives of princes may easily and do daily grow; the privileges of the subject are for the most part at an everlasting stand.
Page 236 - Whitlocke", with his usual candour, never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, with more wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and with a better grace in all his words and actions, than did this great and excellent person; and he moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.