A history of England principally in the seventeenth century, Volume 2 (of 6)
by Leopold von Ranke
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Contents
- Chapter I. Peace with France and Spain
- Chapter II. Share of England in the Events of the Thirty Years’ War, 1630-1636
- Chapter III. Monarchical Tendencies of the Home Government
- Chapter IV. Conflicting Tendencies of the Age and Within the Kingdom of Great Britain
- Chapter V. Origin and Outbreak of Ecclesiastical Disturbances in Scotland
- Chapter VI. The Scottish Covenant
- Chapter VII. Attempts at an Accommodation. Independent Assembly of the Church
- Chapter I. Campaign of Charles I Against Scotland
- Chapter II. Relations of the English Court with the Court and Policy of France
- Chapter III. Relations of England with the Army of Bernard of Weimar and with the Spanish Fleet Under Oquendo
- Chapter IV. Renewed Disturbances in Scotland
- Chapter V. Strafford and the Short Parliament
- Chapter VI. The Scots in England
- Book VIII. The Long Parliament and the King, Down to the Outbreak of the Civil War
- Chapter I. Summoning of the Parliament
- Chapter II. The First Sittings of the Long Parliament
- Chapter III. Progress of Aggressive Tendencies in the Lower House
- Chapter IV. Attempt at a Reaction
- Chapter V. Parliamentary and Popular Agitation. Execution of Strafford
- Chapter VI. Concessions and New Demands
- Chapter VII. Charles I in Scotland. The Irish Rebellion
- Chapter VIII. Days of the Grand Remonstrance
- Chapter IX. Formation of a New Ministry. Tumultuous Agitation in the Capital
- Chapter X. Breach Between the King and the Parliament
- Book IX. The English Civil War. 1642-1646
- Chapter I. Origin of the Civil War
- Chapter II. The Campaigns of 1642 and 1643
- Chapter III. Fresh Interference of the Scots. Campaign of 1644
- Chapter IV. Preponderance of the Scots. Reconstruction of the English Army
- Chapter V. The Campaign of 1645
- Book X. Independents and Presbyterians. Fate of the King
- Chapter I. Flight of the King to the Scots
- Chapter II. Charles I at Newcastle
- Chapter III. The Parliament and Army at Variance
- Chapter IV. Influence of the Agitators
- Chapter V. The So-Called Second Civil War
- Chapter VI. Fall of the King