Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- TRANSLATORS' PREFACE
- Contents
- BOOK I THE CHIEF CRISES IN THE EARLIER HISTORY OF ENGLAND
- BOOK II ATTEMPTS TO CONSOLIDATE THE KINGDOM INDEPENDENTLY IN ITS TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL RELATIONS
- BOOK III QUEEN ELIZABETH. CLOSE CONNEXION OF ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH AFFAIRS
- BOOK IV FOUNDATION OF THE KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN. FIRST DISTURBANCES UNDER THE STUARTS
- BOOK V DISPUTES WITH PARLIAMENT DURING THE LATER YEARS OF THE REIGN OF JAMES I AND THE EARLIER YEARS OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES I
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I James I and his administration of domestic government
- CHAP. II Complications arising out of the affairs of the Palatinate
- CHAP. III Parliament of the year 1621
- CHAP. IV Negotiations for the marriage of the Prince of Wales with a Spanish Infanta
- CHAP. V The Parliament of 1624. Alliance with France
- CHAP. VI Beginning of the reign of Charles I, and his First and Second Parliament
- CHAP. VII The course of foreign policy from 1625 to 1627
- CHAP. VIII Parliament of 1628. Petition of Right
CHAP. II - Complications arising out of the affairs of the Palatinate
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- TRANSLATORS' PREFACE
- Contents
- BOOK I THE CHIEF CRISES IN THE EARLIER HISTORY OF ENGLAND
- BOOK II ATTEMPTS TO CONSOLIDATE THE KINGDOM INDEPENDENTLY IN ITS TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL RELATIONS
- BOOK III QUEEN ELIZABETH. CLOSE CONNEXION OF ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH AFFAIRS
- BOOK IV FOUNDATION OF THE KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN. FIRST DISTURBANCES UNDER THE STUARTS
- BOOK V DISPUTES WITH PARLIAMENT DURING THE LATER YEARS OF THE REIGN OF JAMES I AND THE EARLIER YEARS OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES I
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I James I and his administration of domestic government
- CHAP. II Complications arising out of the affairs of the Palatinate
- CHAP. III Parliament of the year 1621
- CHAP. IV Negotiations for the marriage of the Prince of Wales with a Spanish Infanta
- CHAP. V The Parliament of 1624. Alliance with France
- CHAP. VI Beginning of the reign of Charles I, and his First and Second Parliament
- CHAP. VII The course of foreign policy from 1625 to 1627
- CHAP. VIII Parliament of 1628. Petition of Right
Summary
During these years there had been persons at the helm of state in most countries, who either from natural disposition or from a calculation of present circumstances had cherished peaceful views. In spite of all the activity of Spanish policy, Philip III and his minister Lerma clung to the principle that the rest needed to restore the strength of the exhausted monarchy must be granted to it. The Emperor Matthias owed the crown he wore to his alliance with the Protestants: his first minister Klesel, although a cardinal, was a lukewarm Catholic, and a man of conciliatory views in general. The Regent of France, Mary de' Medici, had surrendered the warlike designs of her husband when she entered on the exercise of sovereign power. Christian IV of Denmark held similar views. He declined the proposals of the Poles, which were aimed at a renewal of the war against Sweden: he preferred, with the approval of his council of state, to proceed with the building of towns and harbours in which he was engaged.
Hence it was possible on the whole to carry out a policy such as that maintained by James I. It corresponded to the tone prevalent among the other powers.
From time to time it seemed probable that the opposing forces which were contending with one another in the depths of European life, would burst forth and shatter the peaceful state of affairs. For the advancing revival of Catholicism roused the hostile feelings of Protestants, while the union of the German and the independent feeling of the Italian princes resisted the extension of the alliances of Spain.
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- A History of EnglandPrincipally in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 484 - 496Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1875