Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- BOOK VI GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND WITHOUT THE PARLIAMENT. TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND
- BOOK VII CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND AND THOSE IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE
- BOOK VIII THE LONG PARLIAMENT AND THE KING, DOWN TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR
- BOOK IX THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, 1642—1646
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I Origin of the Civil War
- CHAP. II The Campaigns of 1642 and 1643
- CHAP. III Fresh interference of the Scots. Campaign of 1644
- CHAP. IV Preponderance of the Scots. Reconstruction of the English army
- CHAP. V The Campaign of 1645
- BOOK X INDEPENDENTS AND PRESBYTERIANS. FATE OF THE KING
CHAP. I - Origin of the Civil War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- BOOK VI GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND WITHOUT THE PARLIAMENT. TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND
- BOOK VII CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND AND THOSE IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE
- BOOK VIII THE LONG PARLIAMENT AND THE KING, DOWN TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR
- BOOK IX THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, 1642—1646
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I Origin of the Civil War
- CHAP. II The Campaigns of 1642 and 1643
- CHAP. III Fresh interference of the Scots. Campaign of 1644
- CHAP. IV Preponderance of the Scots. Reconstruction of the English army
- CHAP. V The Campaign of 1645
- BOOK X INDEPENDENTS AND PRESBYTERIANS. FATE OF THE KING
Summary
There is an important point of connexion between English and French history in the fact that the Queen of England was a daughter of Henry IV, and had her father ever in view as the ideal man and prince. She had grown up under the influence of those prevailing Catholic sentiments which her Florentine mother favoured, and in ideas of the unconditional supremacy of royalty and of the claims of birth, such as had come into favour under her brother: almost more than he she showed that the blood of Henry IV flowed in her veins.
We know how long it was before she could obtain any certain influence over her husband. He put an end, with a decision which no one would have expected in him, to the religious demonstrations of her household, of which she approved: he allowed no scope to her personal sympathies, which were directed across the Channel; he supported his ministers against her. For Charles I was fully conscious of his royal calling: he would not let his position be interfered with by foreign influences: only in cases of mercy was the Queen's intercession ever attended to. Hostility to Cardinal Richelieu, who had deeply offended both the Queen through her mother and the King by his connexion with the Scots gave the first occasion for an understanding between Charles and his consort which was of importance in public affairs; it formed as it were a common interest between them.
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- A History of EnglandPrincipally in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 338 - 361Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1875