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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1900 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. flDarrtage to Xoro (Butltforo Buole. TH E history of the reign of the "boyking," Edward VI., presents from beginning to end extraordinary reading. To the student, wading through this vast maze of interminable intrigue, of plot against plot, of creed against creed, of partisan against partisan, it seems as if the annals of England, from 1547 to 1553, had transformed themselves into a fairy-tale, so replete with sensational incidents were those half-dozen tragic years. From the time when the breath was scarcely out of the body of Henry VIII. until the execution of Lady Jane Grey, English politics may be said to closely resemble the vicissitudes peculiar to the existence of South American Republics in our day. The reign of Edward VI. was not, in fact, that of a single sovereign, but the reign of a pair of self-constituted rulers of the kingdom, respectively the leaders of two different parties, each vainly anxious only to further his own private ends, and both utterly regardless of the welfare of their fatherland. By dint of carefully manipulating the strings of government whilst Henry VIII. was lying on his death-bed, the Lord Protectorate of the Realm, on the accession of King Edward, was assumed by Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, a man of boundless vanity and ambition, who represented the Protestant interest as opposed to the Catholic, represented by the Howards. Until the commencement of the year 1549, Somerset succeeded in ruling with all the authority of an absolute monarch, until he suddenly discovered the integrity of his position to be menaced by the audacious schemes of his younger brother, Lord Seymour of Sudely. But the pride of the Protector brooked no interference, not even from a brother, and Seymour was, by his express order, atta...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151731791
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115173179X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 64 gr


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