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ome to the throne, meditated the re-establishtia in a short time she succeeded, and Parlament pessed an Act which put religion footing as in Edward's reign. Of nine thou an i thee were only fourteen bishops, twelve aner Fads of colleges, hity canons, and eighty thur benefices rather than conform.

TOPOUL** the penalties of Præmune asunt e at the king's disposal or that of the reigning

Deky Ceny was reconstituted in virtue of a t caty J. A Cand a ma de ined

published a treatise in which be t only was it allowable to kil a heretic, bit' a' sch a deel was even meritorious. This 3 boa dendered all the conspiracies which were formed a garast the Queen's life.

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1581.

Mary Stuart, w low of Francis H., Queen of Scotland and beirsson En Tond, lost her head on the scaffold. She took the pa- Chnst an religion. This was the chief

er death. The pretext was complicity

bington Conspiracy. She had been Elizabeth's teen years.

nt the Fleet caled The Invincible to attempt the I», land. It was compo ed of a hundred and fifty Lundred were taken by the English. Two

thousand five hundred men perished, and Philip lost more than F. 5. thirty-six million livres. The Duke of Medina Sidonia commanded the Spaniards. Drake, the English Vice-Admiral, had the chief honour of the defeat.

The Earl of Essex and Howard took Cadiz, G. 1 after having beaten the Spaniards and burnt the

1596. Admiral's ship. thousand ducats.

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1603.

The town paid a ransom of five hundred G. 2.

The Earl of Essex, the Queen's favourite, H. 1. perished on the scaffold.

Death of the Queen, aged seventy.

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JAMES I

A. 1. JAMES was a son of Mary and, from the time of her detention, reigned in Scotland until the death of Queen Elizabeth called him to the throne of England. The Privy Council House of Stuart. proclaimed him immediately. This prince had formed JAMES I. an extravagant idea of the prerogatives of the crown;

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he showed it by having a robber hanged without any form of A. 6. trial. James was equally lavish of honours and money. On his way to London he conferred knighthood on two hundred persons, and did the same to an equal number a few days after his arrival. A. 8. At that time London had only two hundred thousand inhabitants. Against the opening of Parliament this year, the Papists

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B. 2. organised a conspiracy to blow up the House of 1605.
Lords while the Royal Family were there.

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D. 2.

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Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, persecuted the Puritans with so much vigour that they began to take refuge 1608. in Virginia.

Cowell, the clergyman, published a work in which he declared that the king was not bound by the country's laws, nor by his Coronation oath. Dr. Blackwood, author of the 1609. second (treatise), took as his text that the conquest of England by William had caused the loss of the people's liberty. This prince had an infatuation for hunting. He called the art of governing the art of kings, and, in a speech, he begged the Commons not to interfere therein. This year 1610. Parliament was dissolved. It had lasted seven years.

A young page won the king's heart by his good looks, and he 1 These notes will be found on pp. 254-267.