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EBOOK HISTORY ENGLAND, V8 ***


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The History of England
From The First Invasion By The Romans To The Accession Of King George The
Fifth

BY
JOHN LINGARD, D.D. AND HILAIRE BELLOC, B.A.

With an Introduction By
HIS EMINENCE JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS

IN ELEVEN VOLUMES

1912

CONTENTS of THE EIGHTH VOLUME.

CHAPTER I

CHARLES I.--_continued_.
Battle Of Edge Hill--Treaty At Oxford--Solemn Vow And Covenant--Battle
Of Newbury--Solemn League And Covenant Between The English And Scottish
Parliaments--Cessation Of War In Ireland-Royalist Parliament At
Oxford--Propositions Of Peace--Battle Of Marston Moor--The Army Of
Essex Capitulates In The West--Self-Denying Ordinance--Synod Of
Divines--Directory For Public Worship--Trial Of Archbishop Laud--Bill Of
Attainder--His Execution.
Treaty proposed and refused.
Royalists.
Parliamentarians.
State of the two armies.
The king's protestation.
Battle of Edge Hill.
Action at Brentford.
King retires to Oxford.
State of the kingdom.
Treaty at Oxford.
Intrigues during the treaty.
Return of the Queen.
Fall of Reading.
Waller's plot.
Solemn vow and covenant.
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