England under Stuart Rule, etc

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ENGLAND UNDER STUART RULE. ENGLAND UNDER STUART RULE: Being the Special Period in History for Certificate, 1899. BY SIDNEY J. MADGE, F.E.S.L., F.E.Hist.S., Lecturer in Modern History at the Day Training College, Moor fields, E.C.; Indexesi n- Chief to the Parish Register Society ; Co-editor of "Gloucestershire Notes and Queries"; Editor of '" B'Miotlieca Campanalogiea" ; Author of " Moulton Church and its Bells." London : CITY OF LONDON BOOK DEPOT, White St. and Finsbuey St., Moorfields, E.C. 1898, lonoon : STRAKER BROTHERS, LTD., PRINTERS, 44-47, BISHOPSGATE WITHOUT, E.C. It was Lord Acton who remarked, with reference to the Study of History : "Learn as much by writing as by reading; be not content with the best book, seed si&etigJtfs from iljc Offices ; have no favourites ; keep men and things apart ; guard against the prestige of great names ; see that your judgments are your own ; and do not shrink from dis agreement ; no trusting without testing ; be more severe in ideas than in actions ; do not overlook the strength of the bad cause, or the weakness of the good ; never be surprised at the crumbling of an idol, or the disclosure of a skeleton ; judge talent at its best, and character at its worst ; suspect power more than vice ; and efuftjt problems in p^efercroe to pc^iucs."

This is the theory upon which the present work is based, and it is offered as an effort to assist the student for Certificate in grappling with the difficulties of the Stuart Period. VI Bearing in mind, then, the purpose for which this volume is intended, my authorities have been freely yet cautiously used ; and although the method of treatment precluded the possibility of reference in the text, in the " Section of Sidelights" my indebtedness is fully expressed. The Historical Atlas which accompanies the book is one of its principal features : to Mr. Percy W. Eyde, F.R.G.S., for the preparation of the maps, are my acknowledgments due. I would take this opportunity, moreover, of expressing my appreciation of the courtesy ever shown me by Principal Cusack, whose efforts in securing an accurate revision of the proofs have been most generous and untiring. xJn^y (^^-^J^) The Day Training College, Moorfields, E.C., December 10th, 1898. tontenfs* _ PAGE par(t I.— Monarchical Dispensation 1603-1625 1-40 Sec. i. The Monarch 1603-1625 3 „ ii.

Security Measures 1603-1605 7 „ iii. Parliamentary Measures 1604-1611 14 „ iv. Domestic Measures 1611-1616 20 „ v. Foreign and Final Measures ... 1616-1625 23 „ vi. Illustrative Side-lights 1603-1625 31 Par|f H.— Monarchical Intolerance 1625-1649 41-106 Sec. i. The Monarch 1625-1649 43 „ ii. Ministerial Rule 1625-1629 45 „ iii. Personal Rule 1629-1638 53 „ iv. National Resistance 1637-1640 60 „ v. Long Parliament — a. Phase of Reform, Nov., 1640— May, 1641 64 b. Phase of Revolution, May, 1641 — Aug., 1642 68 „ vi. Civil War — a. The Royalist Phase, Mar., 1642— Sept., 1643 74 b. Tlie Scottish Phase, Sept., 1643— Dec., 1644 79 c. The Cromwellian Phase, Jan. 1645 — Jan.1647 83 „ vii. Independent Army and Presbyterian Parliament 1647-1649 87 „ viii. Illustrative Side-lights 1625-1649 92 pavf III.— Monarchical Suppression ... 1649-1660107-140 Sec. i. The Protectors 1649-1660 109 „ ii.