A History of England : Principally in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)

Book VI. Government in England without the Parliament. Troubles in Scotland: 1. Peace with France and Spain; 2. Share of England in the events of the Thirty Years' War, 1630?1636; 3. Monarchical tendencies of the home government; 4. Conflicting tendencies of the age, and within the kingdom of Great Britain; 5. Origin and outbreak of ecclesiastical disturbances in Scotland; 6. The Scottish Covenant; 7. Attempts at an accommodation; Book VII. Connexion between the Troubles in Scotland and those in England and Elsewhere: 1. Campaign of Charles I against Scotland; 2. Relations of the English court with the court and polity of France; 3. Relations of England with the army of Bernard of Weimar and with the Spanish fleet under Oquendo; 4. Renewed disturbances in Scotland; 5. Strafford and the Short Parliament; 6. The Scots in England; Book VIII. The Long Parliament and the King, down to the Outbreak of the Civil War: Introduction; 1. Summoning of the parliament; 2. The first sittings of the Long Parliament; 3. Progress of aggressive tendencies in the Lower House. Debates on Episcopacy; 4. Attempt at a reaction; 5. Parliamentary and popular agitation. Execution of Strafford; 6. Concessions and new demands; 7. Charles I in Scotland. The Irish rebellion; 8. Days of the Grand Remonstrance; 9. Formation of a new ministry. Tumultuous agitation in the capital; 10. Breach between the king and the parliament; Book IX. The English Civil War, 1642?1646: Introduction; 1. Origin of the Civil War; 2. The campaigns of 1642 and 1643; 3. Fresh interference of the Scots. Campaign of 1644; 4. Preponderance of the Scots; 5. The campaign of 1645; Book X. Independents and Presbyterians. Fate of the King: Introduction; 1. Flight of the King to the Scots; 2. Charles I at Newcastle; 3. The parliament and army at variance; 4. Influence of the agitators; 5. The so-called second civil war; 6. Fall of the king.