History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada

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Cambridge University Press, Nov 17, 2011 - History - 692 pages
James Anthony Froude (1818-94), historian and disciple of Carlyle, published this twelve-volume history of the English Reformation between 1858 and 1870. The work is shaped by Froude's firm belief that the Reformation enabled the development of modernity and the rise of 'progressive intelligence' in England. His polemical stance was criticised by some historians, but his engaging narrative style and elegant prose made his work extremely popular with the general public, and the books were highly influential. The first six volumes consider the course of the Reformation from the break with Rome until the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, and the remaining six recount the reign of Elizabeth I, ending with the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Froude changed the title of this eleventh volume, having decided that the Armada marked the defeat of Catholicism in England, and the appropriate conclusion to his work.
 

Contents

CHAPTER XXV
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The Low Countries
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Proposed Latitudinarian League
12
Eagerness of the Queen of Scots 4 94
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Relations between England and Ireland Cruel effects of the Queens economy The Earl of Essex appointed governor of Ulster Submission of Tirlogh ...
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They call on the Earl of Desmond to join them
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Final refusal to restore Drakes plunder
441
Fresh hesitation
448
Installed Duke of Brabant
454
Alternative prospects
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Relations between Scotland and France 46 5
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Elizabeth attempts to play her off against her son
472
Correspondence with the Catholics in England
478

Difliculties of James
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Scotch politicians Mary Stuarts hold over her son
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CHAPTER XXVI
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Assassination of Escobedo Don Bernardino Mendoza sent to England First interview with Elizabeth She receives Count de Retz Alencon offers to assi...
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Despondency of Lord Grey
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Perplexity of the English Council
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Attempt to assassinate Elizabeth Death of Somerville and Arden Arrest of Francis Throgmorton His confession on the rack Arrest of the Earls of Aru...
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Parry and Morgan
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Jesuit plot for invasion and insurrection
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Action of the General Assembly
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Defeat of the French at Terceira
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Scene in Edinburgh
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Elizabeth refuses
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La Mothe Fenelon comes to London
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Danger of James
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Fresh plans for insurrection
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Parties in Scotland
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Mary Stuart consults Mendoza 54 1
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Conditions on which Scotland will be her ally 54 6
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