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CHAPTER I
1
Ferdinands preparations Inaction of the Union
33
The Passes into the Valtelline
39
The Strafgericht of Ilanz
45
The Gutherzigen
51
The Treaty of Lindau Success of the AustroSpanish party
57
Frederick left without support by the Union
67
Rise of Wallenstein
73
Economic and social effects of the Peace Agriculture
417
The Imperial towns The Hansa
418
Social and religious downfall Growth of superstition
424
Joint attack upon Sweden Election of Leopold I
430
Peace with the Dutch
436
The Protectors second Parliament
442
Death of Oliver Cromwell Richard Protector
448
Commonwealth finance
454

Protestant champions
79
Maximilian Elector Catholic gains their precariousness
85
The Danish intervention
91
Battles of the Dessau Bridge and of Lutter
97
SuedoDanish Treaty
103
Peace of Lübeck
109
CHAPTER IV
118
The murder of Concini Rise of Luynes
124
The Assembly of Notables
131
Mary de Medici Gaston of Orleans
137
French army in Lorraine Gastons marriage dissolved
143
Elsass Franche Comté Italy Roussillon
148
The Governors and the Parlements
154
Difficulties of the monarchy in Sweden
160
Duke Charles Peace of Stettin
166
Deposition of Sigismund in Sweden
172
Early days and personality of Gustavus Adolphus
178
Gustavus Adolphus home government
184
Stralsund
186
Contents
190
CHAPTER VII
223
Richelieu and Oxenstierna
226
Wallenstein in Bohemia
232
Contents
234
Wallenstein advances and returns into Bohemia
238
Advance of King Ferdinand Ratisbon recovered
244
Grotius at Paris Capture of Philippsburg
250
CHAPTER VIII
256
PAGE
278
CHAPTER IX
286
Divergence of opinion The Exclusion Bill
292
Attempt on the Five Members
298
CHAPTER X
302
Turnham Green and Bradock Down
308
The peasantry
310
Gainsborough Wallers plot Siege of Gloucester
314
Cromwell and toleration The Scots enter England
320
The New Model
326
Bristol taken Kilsyth and Philiphaugh
332
French intervention Parliamentary offers
338
xviii
340
Temper of the army Treaty of Newport
352
XII
356
Early ecclesiastical legislation of the Long Parliament
358
CHAPTER XIII
364
Treaty of Wismar Campaign on the Rhine
370
Banér on the Oder Bernard on the Upper Rhine
374
Death of Bernard of Weimar
380
Battle of Breitenfeld
386
Bavaria resumes the Imperial alliance Melander
392
The Preliminaries of Hamburg
398
The satisfaction of France Elsass
405
The religious settlement
411
CHAPTER XVI
459
Final destruction of Ruperts fleet
465
Causes of the War
471
The strategy of the War 4778
477
Blake in the Mediterranean
483
XVII
486
The Act of Revocation
489
CHAPTER XVIII
513
The Graces refused Commission for the remedy of defective titles
519
Ormonde defeats the rebels at Kilrush
525
The Confederates besiege Dublin Preston defeated
531
CHAPTER XIX
539
CHAPTER XX
560
CHAPTER XXI
592
Conquests in Flanders The Dutch make peace
598
The Fronde The Parlements
604
The army The provinces
610
Rebellion of Condé
616
Mazarin and Richelieu
622
Spain and Spanish Italy under Philip III and IV
623
Spanish finance Court intrigues
628
learns the truth as to the condition of Spain
634
The English match Charles in Spain
641
Waning faith and deepening misery
647
Philip in Aragon
653
CHAPTER XXIII
666
Coldness of Paul V towards Spain Gregory XV
672
Discord among the Catholic Powers
678
His internal government Nepotism
684
Frederick Henry 162550
689
His first campaigns
691
Difficulties with Holland Acte de Survivance
694
Battle of the Downs
700
The Treasure fleet taken by Piet Hein
706
The Dutch in Formosa Japan and Persia
712
Hugo Grotius Coornheert Spieghel Brederoo
718
The Province of Holland and the House of Orange
724
XXV
728
The English East India Company
730
CHAPTER XXVI
760
The religion of the Fantastic Poets
766
Crashaws exotic and lyrical genius
772
Science and freethinking
776
Cogito ergo sum
782
Cartesianism in the Universities
788
INDEX
789
Pascal
794
b 2
851
p 59 1 10
913
p 102 1 18
922
CHAPTER III
944
THE BOHEMIAN AND THE PALATINATE
956
The beginnings of the Bohemian
964

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