The Cabinet History of England: Being an Abridgment, by the Author, of the Chapters Entitled "Civil and Military History" in "The Pictorial History of England," with a Continuation to the Present Time, Bände 11-12C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... Scottish sub- jects . The Scots received him with great demonstra- tions of joy ; many of the nobility ruined themselves by feasting and entertaining his numerous court ; and on the 18th of June , 1633 , Charles was crowned at Edinburgh ...
... Scottish sub- jects . The Scots received him with great demonstra- tions of joy ; many of the nobility ruined themselves by feasting and entertaining his numerous court ; and on the 18th of June , 1633 , Charles was crowned at Edinburgh ...
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... Scottish ministers should wear precisely the same gar- ments as their English brethren . The subject seemed one of awful importance to many of the Scotch ; and it was not trivial if taken in connexion with other circum- stances and the ...
... Scottish ministers should wear precisely the same gar- ments as their English brethren . The subject seemed one of awful importance to many of the Scotch ; and it was not trivial if taken in connexion with other circum- stances and the ...
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... Scottish lords were not disposed to be silent . The aged Lord Melville , addressing himself to Charles , exclaimed , " I have sworn with your father and the whole kingdom to the Confession of Faith , in which the innovations intended by ...
... Scottish lords were not disposed to be silent . The aged Lord Melville , addressing himself to Charles , exclaimed , " I have sworn with your father and the whole kingdom to the Confession of Faith , in which the innovations intended by ...
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... Scottish emigrants , who were all Dis- senters , prefer the wilds of America to the pleasant banks of the Shannon . * The Lord Deputy also began a crusade against the Presbyterians established in Ulster . It will be remem- bered that a ...
... Scottish emigrants , who were all Dis- senters , prefer the wilds of America to the pleasant banks of the Shannon . * The Lord Deputy also began a crusade against the Presbyterians established in Ulster . It will be remem- bered that a ...
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... Scottish coast . After this assertion of dominion over the circumjacent seas , the States hastened to acknowledge the right of our island over its own friths , bays , and shores , and agreed to pay Charles 30,000l . a - year for liberty ...
... Scottish coast . After this assertion of dominion over the circumjacent seas , the States hastened to acknowledge the right of our island over its own friths , bays , and shores , and agreed to pay Charles 30,000l . a - year for liberty ...
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Seite 181 - Certainly," says Whitlocke,** with his usual candor, "never any man acted such a part, on such a theatre, with more wisdom, constancy, and eloquence, with greater reason, judgment, and temper, and with a better grace in all his words and actions, than did this great and excellent person; and he moved the hearts of all his auditors, some few excepted, to remorse and pity.
Seite 83 - From the entrance into this unnatural war, his natural cheerfulness and vivacity grew clouded, and a kind of sadness and dejection of spirit stole upon him, which he had never been used to ; yet being one of those who believed that one battle would end all differences, and that there would be so great a victory on one side, that the other would be compelled to submit to any conditions from the victor, which supposition and conclusion...
Seite 80 - Barons which so agreed being, that when the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned, and the whole kingdom in danger...
Seite 58 - ... of a personal courage equal to his best parts ; so that he was an enemy not to be wished wherever he might have been made a friend, and as much to be apprehended, where he was so, as any man could deserve to be ; and therefore his death was no less pleasing to the one party, than it was condoled in the other.
Seite 5 - Whosoever shall bring in innovation in religion, or by favour seek to extend or introduce Popery or Arminianism, or other opinions disagreeing from the true and orthodox church, shall be reputed a capital enemy to the kingdom and this commonwealth.
Seite 83 - that he could be content to lend as well as others, but feared to draw upon himself that curse in Magna Charta which should be read twice a year against those who infringe it.
Seite 99 - I speak here to our own faces, is but what others do utter abroad behind our backs. I am far from reflecting on any. I know the worth of those Commanders, Members of both Houses, who are yet in power...
Seite 32 - House were not to be obeyed without his consent, by a resolution ' that when the Lords and Commons in Parliament, which is the supreme court of judicature in the kingdom, shall declare what the law of the land is, to have this not only questioned and controverted, but contradicted, and a command that it should not be obeyed, is a high breach of the privilege of Parliament.
Seite 13 - Well, since I see all the birds are flown, I do expect from you that you will send them unto me as soon as they return hither. But I assure you, on the word of a king, I never did intend any force, but shall proceed against them in a legal and fair way, for I never meant any other. — And now, since I see I cannot do what I came for, I think this no unfit occasion to repeat what I have said formerly, that whatsoever I have done in favour and to the good of my subjects, I do mean to maintain it....
Seite 12 - I am sorry for this occasion of coming unto you. Yesterday I sent a sergeant-at-arms, upon a very important occasion, to apprehend some that, by my command, were accused of high treason, whereunto I did expect obedience, and not a message ; and I must declare unto you here, that albeit no king that ever was in England shall be more careful of your privileges, to maintain them to the uttermost of his power, than I shall be, yet you must know that in cases of treason no person hath a privilege, and...