History of England, Vol. I.
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History of England, Vol. I.
1603–1607
Samuel
Rawson
Gardiner
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Table of Contents
Note on the Text
Preface.
Chapter I.
The Tudor Monarchy.
National consolidation
Reign of Edward I.
English Parliamentary Government
The later Plantagenet kings
The Lancastrian and Yorkist kings
Reign of Henry VII.
Henry VIII. and the Papacy
Aspirations of the Middle Ages
The New Learning and the Reformation
Henry VIII. and Protestantism
Reigns of Edward VI. and Mary
Difficulties of Elizabeth
Elizabeth and Mary Stuart
Elizabeth and the Catholics
Elizabeth and the Puritans
The Vestiarian Controversy
Elizabeth decides against the Nonconformists
Enforcement of Conformity
Presbyterianism
English Episcopacy
The Royal Supremacy
Grindal’s archbishopric
The Prophesyings
Suspension of Grindal
The Nonconformists and the House of Commons
Whitgift’s archbishopric
The Court of High Commission
The Separatists and the Marprelate libels
Reaction in favor of the Elizabethan Church
Hooker’s
Ecclesiastical Polity
Ariosto, Cervantes, and Spenser
Death of Elizabeth
Chapter II.
Church and State in Scotland.
Contrast between England and Scotland
Knox and the Scottish nobility
The Tulchan Bishops
The Second Book of Discipline
Character of James VI.
Jurisdiction restored to the Bishops
Presbyterianism restored
Defeat of the Northern Earls
James urged by the clergy to make full use of his victory
Exile of the Earls of Huntly and Errol
Return of the Earls
Andrew Melville
Quarrel between the King and the Ministers
Black’s Sermon
Black summoned before the Council
Resistance of the Ministers
Banishment of Black
Tumult in Edinburgh
James reduces Edinburgh to submission
Proposed admission of representatives of the clergy to Parliament
James supported by the Northern clergy
Restrictions imposed on the clergy
Absolution of Huntly and Errol
Parliament supports the re-establishment of Episcopacy
The Assembly agrees to appoint clerical representatives in Parliament
James inclines to the re-establishment of Episcopacy
The
Basilicon Doron
Bishops appointed
The new Bishops not acknowledged by the Church
The English succession
The Infanta and the Suffolk line
James and Arabella Stuart
Drummond’s mission to Rome
James’s signature to a letter to the Pope surreptitiously obtained
The secret correspondence with Sir R. Cecil
Chapter III.
James I. and the Catholics.
Accession of James I.
Proceedings of the Council
James sets out from Edinburgh
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Robert Cecil
Lord Henry Howard
Raleigh dismissed from the Captaincy of the Guard
Quarrels between Scotch and English
Grievances of the English Catholics
Hopes of better treatment from James
Lindsay’s Mission
The Pope’s Breves
Letters of Northumberland
The Monopolies called in
Spain and the Netherlands
The war party in England
Cecil’s views on peace with Spain
The Dutch embassy
Rosny’s mission
Treaty of Hampton Court with France
Watson’s plot
Information given by the Jesuits
The Recusancy fines remitted
The Queen refuses to receive the Communion
Cobham and Raleigh arrested
Evidence against them
Case against Raleigh
Raleigh’s attempted suicide
Raleigh’s trial
The verdict
Probable explanation of Raleigh’s conduct
Trial of the other prisoners
Executions and reprieves
Negotiation with the Nuncio at Paris
James renews his assurances to the Catholics
Standen’s mission
Increase of Catholics in England
Proclamation for the banishment of the priests
Chapter IV.
The Hampton Court Conference and the Parliamentary Opposition.
Bacon’s
Considerations touching the Pacification of the Church of England
James’s attitude towards the Puritans
The Millenary Petition
Answer of the Universities
James’s proposals
Touching for the King’s evil
The Conference at Hampton Court
Death of Whitgift
The House of Commons
The House of Lords
Meeting of Parliament
Sir Francis Bacon
The King’s speech
Cases of Sherley and Goodwin
Recognition of the King’s title
Purveyance
Wardship
Proposed Union with Scotland
Church Reform in the House of Commons
The Apology of the Commons
Supply refused
The trading companies
Discussion on freedom of trade
The King’s speech at the prorogation
Chapter V.
The Enforcement of Conformity.
Misunderstanding between James and the House of Commons
Bacon a possible reconciler
The Canons of 1604
Archbishop Bancroft
Proceedings against the Nonconformists
The Northamptonshire petition
Cecil’s opinion on Nonconformity
Expulsion of the Nonconformist clergy
James and the Catholics
Act against Recusants
The Spanish monarchy
Lerma’s foreign policy
Negotiations between England and Spain
Conferences for a Peace
The Treaty of London
The Spanish pensioners
Commercial treaty with France
The blockade of the Flemish ports
Difficulty of preserving neutrality
Proposed marriage between Prince Henry and the Infanta Anne
The Recusancy Act carried into effect by the judges
The priests banished
Pound’s case
Recusancy fines required from the wealthy Catholics
Sir James Lindsay sent to Rome
The Pope hopes to convert England
James takes offence
The Recusancy fines levied
Cranborne created Earl of Salisbury
Difficulties in the way of toleration
Chapter VI.
Gunpowder Plot.
Winter’s mission to Spain
Catesby conceives the idea of the plot
Imparts it to Winter and Wright
Fawkes and Percy informed
A house at Westminster taken
The mine commenced
A cellar hired
Fawkes sent to Flanders
Garnet, Gerard, and Greenway
Digby, Rokewood, and Tresham admitted
Preparations for a rising
Were the Catholic peers to be warned?
Tresham turns informer
The letter to Lord Monteagle
The plot betrayed to the Government
Capture of Fawkes
Probable explanation of Tresham’s behaviour
The conspirators’ proceedings in London
Their flight to the North
The hunting at Dunchurch
Failure of the movement
The conspirators take refuge at Holbeche
Death and capture of the conspirators
Character of the conspiracy
Chapter VII.
The Oath of Allegiance.
Examination of Fawkes
Thanksgiving for the deliverance
Tresham’s imprisonment and death
Trial and execution of the conspirators who had been taken
The search at Hindlip
Capture of Garnet
His examination
His narrative of his connection with the plot
His trial
The doctrine of equivocation
Garnet’s execution
Trial of Northumberland in the Star Chamber
Parliament opened and adjourned
On its reassembling a new Recusancy Act is passed
The oath of allegiance
Canons drawn up by Convocation
The doctrine of non-resistance
The King refuses to assent to the canons
Effect of the oath of allegiance
Financial disorder
James professes a wish to be economical
Bacon’s position in the House of Commons
Subsidies granted
End of the session
Visit of the King of Denmark
Chapter VIII.
The Post-Nati.
State of Scotland after the King had left it
Causes of his success against the Presbyterians
He intends to allow no more General Assemblies
He fears that an Assembly will attack the Bishops and Commissioners
Presbyterian opposition
Meeting of ministers at Aberdeen
They declare themselves to form a General Assembly
False account of their proceedings sent to the King
Imprisonment of Forbes and five other ministers
They decline to submit to the Council’s jurisdiction
Trial of the ministers
Their banishment
Imprisonment of eight other ministers
Position of the Bishops
Andrew Melville and seven other ministers brought to London
His verses, imprisonment, and banishment
The Linlithgow Convention and the Constant Moderators
Causes of the King’s success
Opening of the English Parliament
Report of the Commissioners for the Union
Free trade and naturalisation
The Post-nati and the Ante-nati
The King urges the Commons to accept the scheme of the Commissioners
Debates on commercial intercourse
Violence of Sir C. Pigott
Debates on naturalisation
Speech of Fuller
And of Bacon
Coke’s opinion
Proposal of the Commons
Fresh intervention of the King
Abolition of hostile laws and extradition of criminals
Prisoners to be tried in their own country
Bacon Solicitor-General
Relations between England and Spain
Sea-fight off Dover
Ill-treatment of Englishmen in Spain
Proposed marriage between Prince Henry and the Infanta Anne
Newce’s arrest
Franceschi’s plot
The trade with Spain
The Spanish company opposed in the House of Commons
The merchants’ petition
Spanish cruelties
The Commons send the petition to the Lords
Salisbury advises patience
Northampton’s contemptuous language
Parliament prorogued
Disturbances about enclosures
The case of the Post-nati in the Exchequer Chamber
The Post-nati naturalised by the judges
The Union abandoned
Chapter IX.
The Pacification of Ireland.
The Norman Conquest of Ireland
Ireland in the Middle Ages
Ireland in the time of the Tudors
The defeat on the Blackwater
Essex in Ireland
Mountjoy in Ireland
Submission of the country
Grievances of the towns
Resistance at Cork
Proposed league between the towns
Mountjoy suppresses their resistance
He returns to England and becomes Earl of Devonshire
Sir George Carey Lord Deputy
Sir Arthur Chichester Lord Deputy
Social condition of Ireland
The septs and the chiefs
The Government wishes to introduce English customs
Condition of Leinster and Munster
Of Connaught and Ulster
The first circuit in Ulster
The Earl of Tyrone
Sir John Davies
Proclamations for disarmament, and an amnesty
Protection to be given to the tenants
Chichester’s visit to Ulster
Treatment of the Irish Catholics
The Dublin aldermen summoned before the Castle Chamber
Protest of the Catholics
Proceedings against the Catholics in Munster
Chichester’s views on persecution
Relaxation of the persecution
Indictment of Lalor
Chichester’s efforts to reform the Church
Chichester’s second visit to Ulster
Wicklow made into shire-ground
Chapter X.
The Plantation of Ulster.
Dissatisfaction of the Northern chiefs
Tyrone’s quarrel with O’Cahan
O’Cahan refers his case to the Government
Information given of a conspiracy
O’Cahan’s case to be heard in London
The flight of the Earls
Precautions taken by the Government
Chichester’s views on the settlement of Ulster
Quarrel between O’Cahan and the Bishop of Derry
Sir George Paulet at Derry
O’Dogherty attacked by Paulet
The Assizes at Lifford and Strabane
Intrigues of Neill Garve
O’Dogherty’s rising
Defeat and death of O’Dogherty
The massacre on Tory Island
Neill Garve and O’Cahan sent to England
Scheme of the Commissioners in London for the settlement of Ulster
Difference between their scheme and that of Chichester
Bacon’s views on the subject
Chichester’s criticism
Publication of the scheme of the Commissioners
Chichester’s appeal on behalf of the natives
The removal of the Irish
Discontent in Ulster
Material progress of the colony