In Stewart times; short character-studies of the great figures of the period

Preface

THIS book is intended as a companion volume to In Tudor Times, and it is arranged upon the same plan. In adopting the spelling, " Stewart," I have followed Professor Tout, and other recent historians. The principal books which I have used, either as sources of information, or for purposes of quotation, are as follows : —

Macaulay's History of England; Guizot's English Revolution ; Green's History of the English People ; Napier's Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose ; Calamy's Life of Baxter ; Professor Tout's History of England ; Milman's Annals of St Paulas ; Forster's Life of Sir John Eliot ; Pepys' Diary ; Lucy Aikin's Court of James the First ; Arber's Reprints in An English Garner ; Evelyn's Diary ; Carlyle's Letters of Oliver Cromwell ; Stanhope's History of Queen Anne ; Clements Markham's Life of Fairfax; Guizot's Life of Oliver Cromwell; Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages ; several volumes in the " English Men of Letters Series " ; and the contemporary songs and ballads in the " Roxburgh " and " Bagford " collections respectively.

In selecting the characters for the essays, many important figures have had to be excluded. The aim has been to choose representatives from as many aspects of the period as possible, without giving undue preference

to any single phase.

Edith L. Elias

Contents

Introduction . . . . . .11

PHASE I— THE KINGSHIP AND THE PROTECTORATE

William III and Mary . . . . .75