THE CABINET CYCLOPÆDIA. CONDUCTED BY THE REV. DIONYSIUS LARDNER, LL.D. F.R. S. L. & E. M.R.I.A. F.R. A.S. F.L.S. F.Z.S. Hon. F.C.P.S. &c. &c. ASSISTED BY EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN Historp. ENGLAND. CONTINUED FROM THE LATE RIGHT HON. SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. VOL. V. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMAN, PATERNOSTER-ROW; AND JOHN TAYLOR, UPPER GOWER STREET. 1835. Charles the first. receiving his Queen, Henrietta, London: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN & LONGMAN, PATERNOSTER ROW. AND JOHN TAYLOR, UPPER GOWER STREET. HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CHAP. I. 1625. CHARLES I. ACCESSION OF CHARLES I. HIS MARRIAGE. — BUCKINGHAM'S MISSION. ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN HENRIETTA. FIRST PARLIAMENT OF CHARLES. ATTACKS OF THE COMMONS UPON BUCKINGHAM.-SUPPLIES AND REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES. ENGLISH VESSELS SENT AGAINT ROCHELLE. REFUSAL OF THE CREW. - RICHELIEU. THE POPULAR LEADERS. - EXSHERIFFS NAMED BY PEDITION TO CADIZ. -ITS FAILURE. CHARLES the First, born on the 19th of November, at Dunfermline castle, in Scotland, succeeded to the crown of three kingdoms in the 25th year of his age, on the 27th of March, 1625. Upon being informed that his father had expired, he made it known that he should indulge his grief in seclusion for that day.* Thus early was he familiar with the art of imposing decorum for morality. Arrived next morning at Whitehall, from beside his father's remains at Theobalds, with the attendance only of Dr. Preston, his puritan chaplain, and the duke of Buckingham, his bosom friend †, he reap * Carte, iv. 131. + Fuller, Church Hist. 119. Burnet, Hist. of his own Times, i. 33, 34. VOL. V. B |