Chapter I: Book VI

GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND WITHOUT THE PARLIAMENT.

TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND.

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CHAP. I. Peace with France and Spain 3

” II. Share of England in the events of the Thirty Years’
War 1630-1636 15

” III. Monarchical tendencies of the Home Government 31

Taxes levied without a grant of Parliament 33

Charles I’s relations with Catholicism 38
State of opinion in the Church of England at this time 45

Further designs of the Government 51

Public Affairs 54

” IV. Conflicting tendencies of the Age, and within the Kingdom
of Great Britain 59

” V. Origin and outbreak of Ecclesiastical Disturbances in
Scotland 71

” VI. The Scottish Covenant 88

” VII. Attempts at an accommodation. Independent Assembly
of the Church 105

BOOK VII.

CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND AND THOSE IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE.

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CHAP. I. Campaign of Charles I against Scotland 121

” II. Relations of the English Court with the Court and
Policy of France 138
” III. Relations of England with the army of Bernard of
Weimar and with the Spanish fleet under Oquendo 157

” IV. Renewed disturbances in Scotland 169

” V. Strafford and the Short Parliament 182

” VI. The Scots in England 199

BOOK VIII.

THE LONG PARLIAMENT AND THE KING, DOWN TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR.