Category: History - British
They who have read the history of Mary Queen of Scots, will remember that it was the great end and aim of her life to unite the crowns of England and Scotland in her own family. Queen Elizabeth was then Queen of England. She lived and died unmarried. Queen Mary and a young man...
They who have read the history of Mary Queen of Scots, will remember that it was the great end and aim of her life to unite the crowns of England and Scotland in her own family....
2. CHAPTER II.In order that the reader may understand fully the nature of the romantic enterprise in which, as we have already said, Prince Charles embarked when he was a little over twenty y...
3. CHAPTER III.King James made slow progress in his military preparations. He could not raise the funds without the action of Parliament, and the houses were not in very good humor. The expens...
4. CHAPTER IV.Charles commenced his reign in 1625. He continued to reign about twenty-four years. It will assist the reader to receive and retain in mind a clear idea of the course of events...
5. CHAPTER V.The great difficulty in governing without a Parliament was how to raise funds. By the old customs and laws of the realm, a tax upon the people could only be levied by the action...
6. CHAPTER VI.In getting so deeply involved in difficulties with his people, King Charles did not act alone. He had, as we have already explained, a great deal of help. There were many men of...
7. CHAPTER VII.During the time that the king had been engaged in the attempt to govern England without Parliaments, he had, besides Laud, a very efficient co-operator, known in English history...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The Parliament assembled in November, 1640. The king proceeded to London to meet them. He left Strafford in command of the army at York. Active hostilities had been suspended, a...
9. CHAPTER IX.The way in which the king came at last to a final rupture with Parliament was this. The victory which the Commons gained in the case of Strafford had greatly increased their con...
10. CHAPTER X.The circumstances of King Charles's surrender to the Scots were these. He knew that he was surrounded by his enemies in Oxford, and that they would not allow him to escape if th...
11. CHAPTER XI.As soon as the army party, with Oliver Cromwell at their head, had obtained complete ascendency, they took immediate measures for proceeding vigorously against the king. They se...