Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original charts, maps, and illustrations. See 42025-h.htm or 42025-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42025/42025-h/42025-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42025/42025-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/cu31924010282832 Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). EUROPE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 1494-1598 by A. H. JOHNSON, M.A. * * * * * * _In Eight Volumes. Crown 8vo. With Maps, etc._ _Six Shillings net each Volume._ _The Complete Set £2, 8s. net._ PERIODS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY General Editor--ARTHUR HASSALL, M.A., Student of Christ Church, Oxford. The object of this series is to present in separate Volumes a comprehensive and trustworthy account of the general development of European History, and to deal fully and carefully with the more prominent events in each century. The Volumes embody the results of the latest investigations, and contain references to and notes upon original and other sources of information. No such attempt to place the History of Europe in a comprehensive, detailed, and readable form before the English Public has previously been made, and the Series forms a valuable continuous History of Mediæval and Modern Europe. =Period I.--The Dark Ages.= 476-918. By C. W. C. Oman, M.A., Chichele Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. _6s. net._ =Period II.--The Empire and the Papacy.= 918-1273. By T. F. Tout, M.A., Professor of Mediæval and Modern History in the University of Manchester. _6s. net._ =Period III.--The Close of the Middle Ages.= 1273-1494. By R. Lodge, M.A., LL.D., Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. _6s. net._ =Period IV.--Europe in the 16th Century.= 1494-1598. By A. H. Johnson, M.A., Historical Lecturer to Merton, Trinity, and University Colleges, Oxford. _6s. net._ =Period V.--The Ascendancy of France.= 1598-1715. By H. O. Wakeman, M.A., late Fellow of All Souls’ College, Oxford. _6s. net._ =Period VI.--The Balance of Power.= 1715-1789. By A. Hassall, M.A., Student of Christ Church, Oxford. _6s. net._ =Period VII.--Revolutionary Europe.= 1789-1815. By H. Morse Stephens, M.A., Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. _6s. net._ =Period VIII.--Modern Europe.= 1815-1899. By W. Alison Phillips, M.A., formerly Senior Scholar of St. John’s College, Oxford. _6s. net._ THE DARK AGES, 476-918 By C. W. C. OMAN, M.A., Chichele Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. Forming Volume I. of Periods of European History.