E-text prepared by Paul Murray, Lisa Reigel, Michael Zeug, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original map and links to images of the original pages. See 23642-h.htm or 23642-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/6/4/23642/23642-h/23642-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/6/4/23642/23642-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Text in italics in the original is surrounded by _underscores_. The index for the entire 8 volume set of _History of the English People_ was located at the end of Volume VIII. For ease in accessibility, it has been removed and produced as a separate volume (https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25533). An additional transcriber's note will be found at the end of the text. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE by JOHN RICHARD GREEN, M.A. Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford VOLUME V PURITAN ENGLAND, 1603-1644 London MacMillan and Co., Ltd. New York: MacMillan & Co. 1896 First Edition 1879; Reprinted 1882, 1886, 1891. Eversley Edition, 1896. CONTENTS BOOK VI CHAPTER VII PAGE THE ENGLAND OF SHAKSPERE. 1593-1603 1 BOOK VII PURITAN ENGLAND. 1603-1660 CHAPTER I ENGLAND AND PURITANISM. 1603-1660 75 CHAPTER II THE KING OF SCOTS. 120 CHAPTER III THE BREAK WITH THE PARLIAMENT. 1603-1611 146 CHAPTER IV THE FAVOURITES. 1611-1625 183 CHAPTER V CHARLES I. AND THE PARLIAMENT. 1625-1629 242 CHAPTER VI THE PERSONAL GOVERNMENT. 1629-1635 272 CHAPTER VII THE RISING OF THE SCOTS. 1635-1640 315 CHAPTER VIII THE LONG PARLIAMENT. 1640-1644 344 CHAPTER VII THE ENGLAND OF SHAKSPERE 1593-1603 [Sidenote: English Literature.]