Transcriber’s Notes Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged, except as noted below. Page 203 - Corrected “Parliamen” to “Parliament” Page 216 - Corrected “PARLIAMLNT” to “PARLIAMENT” Page 481 - Corrected “wa sno” to “was no” Page 538 - Corrected “devoloping” to “developing” Italics are represented thus _italic_, superscripts thus y^n. HISTORY OF ENGLAND _L. VON RANKE_ London MACMILLAN AND CO. [Illustration: CLARENDON OXFORD PRESS.] _PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF_ Oxford. A HISTORY OF ENGLAND PRINCIPALLY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BY LEOPOLD VON RANKE VOLUME II Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1875 [_All rights reserved_] CONTENTS. BOOK VI. GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND WITHOUT THE PARLIAMENT. TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND. PAGE CHAP. I. Peace with France and Spain 3 ” II. Share of England in the events of the Thirty Years’ War 1630-1636 15 ” III. Monarchical tendencies of the Home Government 31 Taxes levied without a grant of Parliament 33 Charles I’s relations with Catholicism 38 State of opinion in the Church of England at this time 45 Further designs of the Government 51 Public Affairs 54 ” IV. Conflicting tendencies of the Age, and within the Kingdom of Great Britain 59 ” V. Origin and outbreak of Ecclesiastical Disturbances in Scotland 71 ” VI. The Scottish Covenant 88 ” VII. Attempts at an accommodation. Independent Assembly of the Church 105 BOOK VII. CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND AND THOSE IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE. PAGE CHAP. I. Campaign of Charles I against Scotland 121 ” II. Relations of the English Court with the Court and Policy of France 138 ” III. Relations of England with the army of Bernard of Weimar and with the Spanish fleet under Oquendo 157 ” IV. Renewed disturbances in Scotland 169 ” V. Strafford and the Short Parliament 182 ” VI. The Scots in England 199 BOOK VIII.