The Political History of England ...: Montague, F.C. From the accession of James I to the restoration (1603-1660)William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole Longmans, Green and Company, 1907 - Great Britain |
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... Prince Henry Burning of Legate and Wightman Robert Carr , the king's favourite . The Essex divorce Carr is created Earl of Somerset The murder of Overbury Meeting of a new parliament 15 Sept. , 1613 . 5 April , 1614 . 7 June ...
... Prince Henry Burning of Legate and Wightman Robert Carr , the king's favourite . The Essex divorce Carr is created Earl of Somerset The murder of Overbury Meeting of a new parliament 15 Sept. , 1613 . 5 April , 1614 . 7 June ...
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... prince was to take this oath on pain of felony . Any person trying to withdraw the king's subjects from their allegiance or to reconcile them with Rome was to suffer as in case of high treason . By another statute recusants were for ...
... prince was to take this oath on pain of felony . Any person trying to withdraw the king's subjects from their allegiance or to reconcile them with Rome was to suffer as in case of high treason . By another statute recusants were for ...
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... prince and the chief of a national uprising , was now no more than an ordinary noble , without the sense of security which other nobles enjoyed . He had many disputes with his dependants , who hoped to gain recognition as freeholders ...
... prince and the chief of a national uprising , was now no more than an ordinary noble , without the sense of security which other nobles enjoyed . He had many disputes with his dependants , who hoped to gain recognition as freeholders ...
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... Prince of Wales in 1610 , and an infanta was renewed once or twice , but was not taken seriously . Several causes kept up irritation between the two kingdoms . In spite of the treaty Englishmen in Spain were often molested by the ...
... Prince of Wales in 1610 , and an infanta was renewed once or twice , but was not taken seriously . Several causes kept up irritation between the two kingdoms . In spite of the treaty Englishmen in Spain were often molested by the ...
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... prince had the right to determine the religion of his own territory , and every territorial gain was precious to the one side or the other in view of the ap- proaching struggle for existence . John William , the catholic duke of Cleves ...
... prince had the right to determine the religion of his own territory , and every territorial gain was precious to the one side or the other in view of the ap- proaching struggle for existence . John William , the catholic duke of Cleves ...
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Page 259 - 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...
Page 477 - that according to the ancient and fundamental laws of this Kingdom, the government is, and ought to be, by King, Lords, and Commons.
Page 180 - 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 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 76 - It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do; good Christians content themselves with his will revealed in his Word; so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do; or to say that a king cannot do this or that; but rest in that which is the king's will revealed in his law.
Page 348 - 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 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 237 - It was true, we give law to hares and deer, because they be beasts of chase ; but it was never accounted either cruelty, or foul play, to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they can be found, because they be beasts of prey.
Page 395 - O Sir Henry Vane, Sir Henry Vane, the Lord deliver me from Sir Henry Vane.
Page 259 - 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.