A Student's History of England, v. 2: 1509-1689

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Gardiner Samuel Rawson. A Student's History of England, v. 2: 1509-1689

GENEALOGICAL TABLES

I. KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND (AFTER 1541 OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND) FROM HENRY VII. TO ELIZABETH

II. KINGS OF SCOTLAND AND GREAT BRITAIN, FROM JAMES IV. OF SCOTLAND TO WILLIAM AND MARY

III. KINGS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND FROM JAMES I. TO GEORGE I

IV. GENEALOGY OF THE KINGS OF FRANCE FROM LOUIS XII. TO LOUIS XIV., SHOWING THEIR DESCENT FROM LOUIS IX

V. GENEALOGY OF THE KINGS OF SPAIN FROM FERDINAND AND ISABELLA TO CHARLES II

VI. GENEALOGY OF THE GERMAN BRANCH OF THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA FROM FERDINAND I. TO LEOPOLD I

VII. GENEALOGY OF THE PRINCES OF ORANGE FROM WILLIAM I. TO WILLIAM III

PART V. THE RENASCENCE AND THE REFORMATION 1509-1603

CHAPTER XXIV. HENRY VIII. AND WOLSEY. 1509-1527

CHAPTER XXV. THE BREACH WITH THE PAPACY. 1527-1534

CHAPTER XXVI. THE ROYAL SUPREMACY. 1534-1547

CHAPTER XXVII. EDWARD VI. AND MARY. EDWARD VI., 1547-1553. MARY, 1553-1558

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ELIZABETHAN SETTLEMENT IN CHURCH AND STATE. 1558-1570

CHAPTER XXIX. ELIZABETH AND THE EUROPEAN CONFLICT. 1570-1587

CHAPTER XXX. ELIZABETH'S YEARS OF TRIUMPH. 1587-1603

PART VI. THE PURITAN REVOLUTION. 1603-1660

CHAPTER XXXI. JAMES I. 1603-1625

CHAPTER XXXII. THE GROWTH OF THE PERSONAL GOVERNMENT OF CHARLES I. 1625-1634

CHAPTER XXXIII. THE OVERTHROW OF THE PERSONAL GOVERNMENT OF CHARLES I. 1634-1641

CHAPTER XXXIV. THE FORMATION OF PARLIAMENTARY PARTIES AND THE FIRST YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR. 1641-1644

CHAPTER XXXV. THE NEW MODEL ARMY. 1644-1649

CHAPTER XXXVI. THE COMMONWEALTH AND PROTECTORATE. 1649-1660

PART VII. THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION. 1660-1689

CHAPTER XXXVII. CHARLES II. AND CLARENDON. 1660-1667

CHAPTER XXXVIII. CHARLES II. AND THE CABAL. 1667-1674

CHAPTER XXXIX. DANBY'S ADMINISTRATION AND THE THREE SHORT PARLIAMENTS. 1675-1681

CHAPTER XL. THE LAST YEARS OF CHARLES II. 1681-1685

CHAPTER XLI. JAMES II. 1685-1689

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Genealogy of the Poles 399

" " children of Henry VIII. 411

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10. Birth of a Prince. 1537.– In 1537 Jane Seymour gave birth to a boy, who was afterwards Edward VI. Henry had at last a male heir of undoubted legitimacy, but in a few days his wife died.

11. The Beginning of the Attack on the Greater Monasteries. 1537-1538.– The failure of the Pilgrimage of Grace brought in fresh booty to Henry. Abbots and priors who had taken part in it, or were accused of doing so, were hanged, and their monasteries confiscated. Where nothing could be proved against the greater monasteries, which had been declared by Parliament to be free from vice, their heads were terrified into an appearance of voluntary submission. Cromwell had his spies and informers everywhere, and it was as easy for them to lie as to speak the truth. In 1537 and 1538 many abbots bowed before the storm, and, confessing that they and their monks had been guilty of the most degrading sins, asked to be allowed to surrender their monasteries to the king. Cromwell's commissioners then took possession, sold the bells, the lead on the roof, and every article which had its price, and left the walls to serve as a quarry for the neighbourhood. The lands went to the king. It not unfrequently happened that Henry promoted to ecclesiastical benefices those monks who had been most ready to confess themselves sinners beyond other men. There is no doubt that the confessions were prepared beforehand to deceive contemporaries, and there is therefore no reason why they should deceive posterity.

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