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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... Execution of Raleigh . The fall of the Howards Affairs of Ireland . Affairs of Scotland The declaration of sports CHAPTER IV . THE OUTBREAK OF THE THIRTY YEArs ' War . Causes of the Thirty Years ' War The Bohemian revolution • Action of ...
... Execution of Raleigh . The fall of the Howards Affairs of Ireland . Affairs of Scotland The declaration of sports CHAPTER IV . THE OUTBREAK OF THE THIRTY YEArs ' War . Causes of the Thirty Years ' War The Bohemian revolution • Action of ...
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... Execution of Strafford Suppression of the Star Chamber , etc. Bill to remove the bishops from the house of lords The root and branch bill Differences of opinion in the commons Act to abolish the court of high commission The ten ...
... Execution of Strafford Suppression of the Star Chamber , etc. Bill to remove the bishops from the house of lords The root and branch bill Differences of opinion in the commons Act to abolish the court of high commission The ten ...
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... execution of Laud 3 April , 1645. The second self - denying ordinance The king's preparations · 302 • 303 • 304 • 305 • 306 • 307 • 308 His march northwards • 309 14 June . Battle of Naseby . • 310 11 Sept. Fairfax takes Bristol • 312 ...
... execution of Laud 3 April , 1645. The second self - denying ordinance The king's preparations · 302 • 303 • 304 • 305 • 306 • 307 • 308 His march northwards • 309 14 June . Battle of Naseby . • 310 11 Sept. Fairfax takes Bristol • 312 ...
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... Execution of the king . Events in Ireland The treaty of Newport The army and the king Pride's Purge 342 343 • 344 · • 345 346 347 350 CHAPTER XVI . THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH . 19 May , 1649. England declared a free ...
... Execution of the king . Events in Ireland The treaty of Newport The army and the king Pride's Purge 342 343 • 344 · • 345 346 347 350 CHAPTER XVI . THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH . 19 May , 1649. England declared a free ...
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... execution of Cobham , Grey , and Markham , and on December 10 they were brought out to the scaffold . When each had made what he deemed his dying speech , he was removed to separate confinement and was told that he had been reprieved ...
... execution of Cobham , Grey , and Markham , and on December 10 they were brought out to the scaffold . When each had made what he deemed his dying speech , he was removed to separate confinement and was told that he had been reprieved ...
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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.