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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… period of the Convention Parliament, its resignation, and the assumption of power by Cromwell as Lord Protector. … before, the members being severally approved on July 9th and 14th by the new Parliament (pp. 16, 25), and they remained in office till its legal expiration at the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… the affairs of the administration were most prosperous, and the new mode of governing the people of England, which … had elapsed since a Parliament had been called together, and there seemed no reason to suppose that any person of the … happy in his domestic relations, attentive to business, and as attached to the new "thorough" principles of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… than himself was a main ingredient in his character, and, deprived of one support, he soon made it apparent that … points of resemblance. Both were men of severe judgment and unyielding temper; both men who were a terror to suitors by sharpness of speech and strength of prejudice. As courtiers, both were animated …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… months, viz., the three closing months of the year 1639 and the opening months of the eventful year 1640. The … occurrences which took place in England during this and the two succeeding years have ever since been the subject of much controversy, and the documents which are preserved to us illustrative of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer with applause, and had even managed to stand well with Parliaments, which … of Forest Laws, and the extension of the boundaries of the forests by annulling grants of lands long severed from the … some in hunting, some for building, some for cutting their woods without licence, some for not well fencing them in, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… generally as that which relates to the Cadiz Expedition and the Impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham. The second … of Buckingham, the dissolution of the Parliament of 1629, and the subsequent prosecution of Sir John Eliot and other Members of the House of Commons. Actual …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… present volume relate, were years of comparative quiet, and, as might be supposed by persons to whom these papers were not accessible, years of public prosperity and happiness. The expeditions against Spain and France came … "We took another conventicle of Separatists in Newington Woods upon Sunday last, in the very brake where the King's …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… period embraced in this volume begins with January 1586 and ends, in July 1588, with the departure of the Lord Deputy … and little through O'Rourk's country, upon mountains, woods, and bogs towards the Curlews, intending to pass that … shipped themselves, and with great celerity escaped to the woods, fearing, that at the next charge I should have won the …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… arrival of the Spanish fleet off the Lizard was announced, and this commences with full details of the disasters which … till they changed their course "on the 10 / 20 of August, "and steered for Spain." 2 Upon Friday, 19th July, 3 part of … men were blown up, the rest being compelled to leave her, and she was sent by Admiral Howard into the west parts of …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… Volume contained full accounts of the wreck of the Armada and of the miseries endured by the Spaniards and their allies. This Volume opens with a project for a … of the fighting, saying that Maguire had escaped to the woods, but hoping that the winter's service would make an end …