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CONTENTS.

BOOK VI.

GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND WITHOUT THE PARLIAMENT.

TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND.

CHAP. PAGE
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.

CHAP. PAGE
I. Campaign of Charles I against Scotland [121]
II. Relations of the English Court with the Court and Policy of France [138]
III. Weimar and with the Spanish fleet under Oquendo Relations of England with the army of Bernard of [157]
IV. Renewed disturbances in Scotland [169]
V. Strafford and the Short Parliament [182]
VI. The Scots in England [199]

BOOK VIII.