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Charles I

by Abbott Jacob

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CONTENTS.Chapter PageI. HIS CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 13II. THE EXPEDITION INTO SPAIN 34III. ACCESSION TO THE THRONE 58IV. BUCKINGHAM 81V. THE KING AND HIS PREROGATIVE 107VI. ARCHBISHOP LAUD 131VII. THE EARL OF STRAFFORD 155VIII. DOWNFALL OF STRAFFORD AND LAUD 177IX. CIVIL WAR 203X. THE CAPTIVITY 234XI. TRIAL AND DEATH 261

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...Parliamentsat all, and attempted to govern alone. This attempt to manage theempire without a legislature lasted for ten years, and is the secondperiod. After this a Parliament was called, and it soon made itselfindependent of the king, and became hostile to him, the two powersbeing at open war. This constitutes the third period. Thus we havefour years spent in getting into the quarrel between the king andParliament, ten years in an attempt by the king to govern alone, and, finally, ten years of war, more or less open, the king on one side, and the Parliament on the other. The first four years--that is, the time spent in getting really intothe quarrel with Parliament, was Buckingham's work, for during thattime Buckingham's influence with the king was paramount and supreme;and whatever was done that was important or extraordinary, though donein the king's name, really originated in him. The whole country knewthis and were indignant that such a man, so unprincipled, so low incharacter, so...