This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...to resign the regency. Elizabeth's fleet and army besieged and captured Leith; and in the treaty which followed, the French king and queen were compelled to renounce all pretension to the English crown. The reformers were now supreme in Scotland. Mass was abolished, and the kingdom threw off its allegiance to the Pope. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...to resign the regency. Elizabeth's fleet and army besieged and captured Leith; and in the treaty which followed, the French king and queen were compelled to renounce all pretension to the English crown. The reformers were now supreme in Scotland. Mass was abolished, and the kingdom threw off its allegiance to the Pope. 287. Queen Mary's widowhood soon followed her elevation to the French throne, and she then resolved to return to her native land. But she came as a Frenchwoman, --gay, brilliant, accomplished, and loving the elegant dissipations of Paris, --quite indisposed to favor the severe manners now prevalent in Scotland. For the Scotch reformers, absorbed in their stern combat with Romish doctrines, had no tolerance for even the most innocent practices associated with those doctrines. Queen Mary sincerely desired to unite all parties in Scotland against both French and English influence. She gave her confidence to the reformers, and commanded her people to attend Protestant worship; but, loving the rites in which she had been educated, she insisted upon having mass said in her private chapel. This was abomination in the eyes of the reformers, especially of John Knox, who had returned from Geneva full of zeal for the doctrines of Calvin, and who now denounced the Queen as Jezebel, and her priests as ministers of Satan. 288. To unite all the Catholic forces in the two kingdoms, Mary suddenly married her cousin Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; who was next heir, after herself, to the crowns of both Scotland and England. (See Table, p. 150.) He was a weakminded and dissolute youth; and as soon as the Queen perceived his worthlessness, she attempted to limit the power and revenues which she had most lavishly bestowed upon him. Darnley looked for revenge; and, brea...
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