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. V - The Parliament of 1624. Alliance with France
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
After the Prince had taken leave of his Spanish escort, and had gone on board an English fleet at Santander, whither it had put in to fetch him away, contrary winds, or, in the words of a contemporary narrative, ‘the brothers Boreas and Eurus,’ for a while delayed his departure. We are assured that people in England never regarded the weathercocks and the direction of the smoke and of the clouds with more painful anxiety than at that time. Even among the dependents of the royal house many almost gave up the Prince as lost; for who, they said, could trust the word of the Spaniards? The Protestant part of the population thought that he would at least be compelled to abjure his religion. At last the wind subsided. On October 5, after an absence of almost eight months, the Prince arrived in Portsmouth, and the day after in London. The universal joy with which he was received was indescribable: all business was at a standstill; the shops were shut; nothing was seen but waggons driving backwards and forwards, laden with the wood intended for the bonfires which blazed at evening in all the open squares, at all corners of the streets, even in the inner courts, but were most brilliant and costly at the Guildhall. The joyful acclamations of the multitude mingled with the sound of the bells; people congratulated each other that the heir to the throne had returned as he had gone, and that without the Infanta; for this marriage had never been popular; but above all, that he returned rather confirmed than shaken in his religion.
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- A History of EnglandPrincipally in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 522 - 536Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1875