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. 1908 Excerpt: ...Contract," as it was called, was proposed: (a) The King was to surrender certain old feudal rights; (b) In return he was to have a fixed annual revenue of 200,000. ist Parliament. Unfortunately the adjournment came before the matter was formally settled, and when the next Session came both parties had increased their ...
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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. 1908 Excerpt: ...Contract," as it was called, was proposed: (a) The King was to surrender certain old feudal rights; (b) In return he was to have a fixed annual revenue of 200,000. ist Parliament. Unfortunately the adjournment came before the matter was formally settled, and when the next Session came both parties had increased their demands and the King dissolved the Parliament in disgust. Attempts were made to ensure that the next (2nd) Parlia 2nmentdled) Parlil" nient should be favourable to the King, by employing agents undertakers' who undertook to secure suitable Members. They failed so l6i4' completely that this Parliament actually did nothing at all. It therefore was called the "Addled Parliament." The financial difficulty remained to dog the steps of the Stuarts. In Foreign affairs James aimed at being the peacemaker of v. Foreign Affairs. Europe by harmonizing the differences between Papists and a James' Policy. Protestants on the Continent. This was very praiseworthy, but it was bound to increase his difficulties. The nation at large desired a continuance of Elizabeth's policy of hostility to Spain, and the Puritans wished to have no dealings with Papists at all. '' James desired to ally himself with both religious parties. He succeeded in marrying his daughter Elizabeth to Frederick i. The German the Elector Palatine, the leader of the German Protestants, and Match 16i3he proposed his son Charles as a husband for the Infanta of Spain, the chief Roman Catholic power. This "Spanish Match" was not unwise in itself, but it is = The Spanish obvious it would be extremely unpopular. Earlier in the (Gr-anc488.) reign the peace which had been made with Spain had been violently opposed, chiefly by Raleigh, the last of the Elizabeth...
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