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Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8): From the Wars of the Roses to the Great RebellionAnonymous

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Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8): From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion

Name: Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8): From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion
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Great Britain -- History

Accession of Charles--His Marriage--Meeting of Parliament--Loan
     of Ships to Richelieu--Dissolution of Parliament--Failure of
     the Spanish Expedition--Persecution of the Catholics--The
     Second Parliament--It appoints three Committees--Impeachment
     of Buckingham--Parliament dissolved to save him--Illegal
     Government--High Church Doctrines--Rupture with France--Disastrous
     Expedition to Rhé--The Third Parliament--The Petition of
     Right--Resistance and Final Surrender of Charles--Parliament
     Prorogued--Assassination of Buckingham--Fall of La
     Rochelle--Parliament Reassembles and is Dissolved--Imprisonment
     of Offending Members--Government without Parliament--Peace
     with France and Spain--Gustavus Adolphus in Germany--Despotic
     Proceedings of Charles and Laud                               508


     CHAPTER XX.

     Reign of Charles I (_continued_).

     Visit of Charles to Scotland--Laud and the Papal See--His
     Ecclesiastical Measures--Punishment of Prynne, Bastwick, and
     Burton--Disgrace of Williams--Ship-money--Resistance of John
     Hampden--Wentworth in the North--Recall of Falkland from
     Ireland--Wentworth's Measures--Inquiry into Titles--Prelacy
     Riots in Edinburgh--Jenny Geddes's Stool--The Tables--Renewal
     of the Covenant--Charles makes Concessions--The General
     Assembly--Preparations for War--Charles at York--Leslie at
     Dunse Hill--A Conference held--Treaty of Berwick--Arrest of
     Loudon--Insult from the Dutch--Wentworth in England--The Short
     Parliament--Riots in London--Preparations of the Scots--Mutiny in
     the English Army--Invasion of England--Treaty of Ripon--Meeting of
     the Long Parliament--Impeachment of Strafford--His Trial--He is
     abandoned by Charles--His Execution--The King's Visit to
     Scotland                                                      550

[Illustration: DANDY OF THE TIME OF CHARLES I.

(_From a Broadside, dated 1646._)]




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                                PAGE

    Dandy of the Time of Charles I.                               IX

    Eltham Palace, from the North-east                             1

    The Duke of York Challenged to Mortal Combat                   5

    View in Lübeck: The Church of St. Ægidius                      9

    Clifford's Tower: York Castle                                 12

    Rutland beseeching Clifford to spare his Life                 13

    The Quarrel in the Temple Gardens                             17

    Edward IV.                                                    20

    Dunstanburgh Castle                                           21

    Great Seal of Edward IV.                                      25

    Gold Rose Noble of Edward IV.                                 28

    Preaching at St. Paul's Cross                                 29

    Battle of Barnet: Death of the King-maker                     33

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Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8): From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion

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