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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... chief authorities , original and secondary , which the author has used . This account will be compiled with a view of helping students rather than of making long lists of books with- out any notes as to their contents or value . That ...
... chief authorities , original and secondary , which the author has used . This account will be compiled with a view of helping students rather than of making long lists of books with- out any notes as to their contents or value . That ...
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... Scots and English alike until the dignity became almost ridiculous . The Howards remained for many years the most powerful family in England , but none of them had ability equal to the I. CHAP . function of chief minister . That place.
... Scots and English alike until the dignity became almost ridiculous . The Howards remained for many years the most powerful family in England , but none of them had ability equal to the I. CHAP . function of chief minister . That place.
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William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole. I. CHAP . function of chief minister . That place was from the first occu- pied by Robert Cecil , second son of the great Lord Burghley . Cecil was about forty years of age . Early apprenticed to public ...
William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole. I. CHAP . function of chief minister . That place was from the first occu- pied by Robert Cecil , second son of the great Lord Burghley . Cecil was about forty years of age . Early apprenticed to public ...
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... commission which included Secretary Cecil , Lord Chief Justice Popham , and other judges , lords , and gentlemen . Sir Edward Coke , the 1603 THE MAIN PLOT . 9 I. attorney - general 8 THE BEGINNing of the REIGN OF JAMES I. 1603.
... commission which included Secretary Cecil , Lord Chief Justice Popham , and other judges , lords , and gentlemen . Sir Edward Coke , the 1603 THE MAIN PLOT . 9 I. attorney - general 8 THE BEGINNing of the REIGN OF JAMES I. 1603.
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... chief . Whatever his guilt , Catesby was a brave man , resolute to act while he had life , and to die sword in hand . He rode without delay to the hunting at Dunchurch and tried to spirit up the catholic gentlemen whom Digby had brought ...
... chief . Whatever his guilt , Catesby was a brave man , resolute to act while he had life , and to die sword in hand . He rode without delay to the hunting at Dunchurch and tried to spirit up the catholic gentlemen whom Digby had brought ...
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Popular passages
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.