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CONTAINING MODERN HISTORY, TO THE OUTBREAK
OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

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HOC ILLUD EST PRÆCIPUE IN COGNITIONE RERUM SALUBRE AC FRUGIFERUM, OMNIS TE EXEMPLI DOCUMENTA IN ILLUSTRI POSITA MONUMENTO INTUERI; INDE TIBI, TUÆQUE REIPUBLICÆ, QUOD IMITERE, CAPIAS; INDE FŒDUM INCEPTU, FŒDUM EXITU, QUOD VITES.-- Livius.

ME QUIDEM IPSÆ ILLÆ NOSTRÆ ATHENÆ NON TAM OPERIBUS MAGNIFICIS EXQUISITISQUE ANTIQUORUM ARTIBUS DELECTANT, QUAM RECORDATIONE SUMMORUM VIRORUM, UBI QUISQUE HABITARE, UBI SEdere, UBI DISPUTARE SIT SOLITUS.-CICERO.

WHO WRITES A HISTORY, HIS PRINCIPAL AIM SHOULD BE TRUTH, AND TO RELATE ESPECIALLY THE EXTRAORDINARIES BOTH OF GOOD AND ILL: OF GOOD, THAT MEN, TAKEN WITH THE HONOUR DONE THEM IN STORY, MAY BE ENCOURAGED TO PERFORM THE LIKE; OF ILL, THAT WHEN MEN SEE THE INFAMY THAT THEY ARE BRANDED WITH, THEY MAY LEAP FROM ALL THAT SHOULD MAKE THEM SO STIGMATIZED.-OWEN FELLTHAM.

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SHOWING THE CONTEMPORANEOUS HISTORY OF EACH REIGN.

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vented. Whitehall and St. James's Palaces built. Roses, oranges, &c. first imported. Parish Registers first kept. Wolsey. Sir Thomas More. Luther. Cortez. Bayard. Rafaelle. Holbein. Copernicus. Lord Cromwell. Zwingle. Cornaro. Ariosto. Corregio. Julio Romano. Louis Brabant. Ventriloquism. Magellan. Erasmus. Las Casas. Berni. Bembo. Machiavelli. Cæsar Borgia. De Comines. Rabelais. Polydore Virgil. Gaston de Foix. St. Theresa. Guicciardini. Melancthon. Leland. Paracelsus. Musurus. Hector Boethius. Jovius. Alciati. Scaliger. Tyndall. Vives. Gawin Douglas. Brunalleschi. Agrippa. AbAlexandro. Grocvn. Aldus Manutius. Reuchlin. Budeus. Speishammer. Lucrezia Borgia. Egypt made a Turkish Province CLXI. EDWARD VI. 1547-1553. Foundation of the Church of England. Dissenters first declared. Kett's Rebellion. The Five Royal Hospitals. The Common Prayer Book drawn up. Lords Lieutenant. The Horse Guards. Cactus Plants. Mulberry-tree. Crowns and Half crowns. Pope Julius III. France under Henri II. Poland under Sigismund II., last of the house of Jagellon. Scotland during the minority of Mary Stuart. Calvin. John Knox. Michael Angelo. Servetus. Cellini. Cheke CLXII. MARY I. 1553-1558. Heretical Burnings: Rogers, Hooper, Saunders, Taylor, Ferrar, Ridley, Latimer, Hunter, Hawkes. Origin of the Violin. English Russia Company. Glass Bottles. Popes: Marcellus II., Paul IV. Spain under Philip II. Russia under Ivan IV. Delhi under Humayun, &c. Navarre under Joan d'Albret. Hungary and Bohemia under Ladislaus VI. &c. Lady Jane Grey. Cardinal Pole. Gardiner. Coverdale. Bonner. Cranmer. Diana de Poitiers. Cardinal Cajetan. Ramus. Peter Martyr. Fox CLXIII. ELIZABETH. 1558-1603. Sixteenth Century of the Church. Abject State of Abbots. The Spanish Armada. First English Settlement in the East Indies. Oriental Archipelago. Australasia and Polynesia described. Origin of the Puritans. Goose Feasts. Hentzner's Visit to England. English Poor-laws established. Massacre of St. Bartholomew. Lepanto. Dutch Republic founded. Edict of Nantes issued. Rage for School founding. The 39 Articles promulgated. The new style introduced in Italy. Westminster, Merchant-Tailors', and Harrow Schools founded. Dublin University and Marischa! College founded. First notice of Cricket. Royal Exchange, Gresham College, English East India Company, and Turkey Company, founded. Lotteries first allowed. Woven stockings invented. Whale Fishery. Tulips. The Oxford Library rebuilt. Virginia colonized. Physic Gardens constructed. St. Helena colonized by England. The Potato in England. Tobacco brought to England; also Strawberries and Watches. Paper first made in England; also knives. The Telescope invented. Coaches in England. England under the Tudors. Turkey under Selim 11. Popes: Pius IV., St. Pius V., Gregory XIII., Sixtus V., Urban VII., Gregory XIV., Innocent IX., Clement VIII. Scotland under Mary Stuart, &c. France under Francis II., Charles IX., Henri III. and Henri IV., le Grand. Sweden under Eric XIV., &c. Denmark and Norway under Frederick II., &c. Portugal under Sebastian, &c. Germany under Ferdinand I., &c. Poland under Henri de Valois, &c. Russia under Feodor Ivanovitz, &c. The Netherlands during the Revolt. Delhi under Abker: the Tugs. Foundation of British India. Persia under Ismail II, &c. Navarre under Henri de Bourbon. Hungary under Bethlem Gabor. Florence under Cosmo 1. Ireland under Elizabeth. Shakspeare. Camoens. Spenser. Tasso. Earl of Leicester. Earl of Essex. Ascham. Drake. Jewel. Buchanan. Paolo Veronese. Titian. Philip Sidney. Palladio. Clavius. Montaigne. Dr. Dee. Tycho Brahe. Crichton. Cardan. Holingshed. Lord Burleigh. Sully. Gresham. Erastus. The Vicar of Bray. Stow. Archbishop Parker. Conrad Gesner. Castalio. Vasari. Bullinger. Fallopius. Vesalée. Gerard Mercator. Dr. Gilbert. Xylander. Peter Baroni. Humphrey Gilbert. Scaliger. Eustachi. Casalpino. Aldrovandi. Plantin. Lipsius. Hems

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kirk. Nostradamus. Bodley. Savile. Casaubon. Annibale Caro. Ronsard. Tintoretto. Du Perron. De Mornay. The Stephenses CLXIV. JAMES I. 1603-1625. Raleigh's Conspiracy. The Gunpowder Plot. The Prince's Visit to Spain. The Scottish Counties. Scotch Episcopal Church established. Heretical Burnings: Legget, Whiteman. Whig and Tory factions arose. London Life. State of English Literature. Loss of the Palatinate. Bermudas colonized by the English. Nova Scotia colonized by the Scots. Newfoundland and St. Kitt's made English colonies. Turkey under Ahmed I., &c. Popes: Leo XI., Paul V., Gregory XV., Urban VIII. France under Louis XIII. Spain and Portugal under Philip III. Germany under Matthias. Scotland under James VI. Persia under Abbas the Great. Russia under Feodor II., &c. Holland under Maurice. Delhi under Jehangir. Bohemia under Ferdinand II. Ireland under James I. Thermometer invented. Tea first used in Europe. Hair-powder first used. The Blood found to circulate. Charter-house founded. Dulwich College founded. Arundelian Marbles. Copper Money and Sedan Chairs first used. Baronets first created. Lord Bacon. Galileo. Kepler. Napier. Cervantes. Bellarmin. Hooker. Raleigh. Ben Jonson. Camden. Grotius. Arminius. The Socini. Sir Julius Cæsar. Heriot. Garnet. Briggs. Bishop Andrewes. The Bloemarts. Lope de Vega. Hugh Myddelton. Father Paul. Dr. Bull. Strada. Malherbe. The Elzevirs. Boehmen. Sanctorius. Molina. Harriott. Guarini. Mariana. The Caracci. CLXV. CHARLES I. 1625-1649. Priest Persecutions. Buckingham. Rise of the Independents. Ship-money Levy. Independence of the Seven United Provinces. Independence of Switzerland. Manchu Conquest of China. Treaty of Westphalia. The Jansenists. Eruption of Vesuvius. Newspapers. Excise. Barbadoes, Nevis, Antigua, Montserrat, and St. Lucia, English Colonies. Brazil taken by the Dutch. Barometer. Pendulum. French Academy. Hackney-coaches. Turkey under Ibrahim. Innocent X. Pope. Russia under Alexis Michaelowitz. Spain and Portugal under Philip IV. Portugal under John IV. Poland under Vladislaus VI. Naples under Masaniello. Persia under Shah Saffi and Abbas II. Delhi under Shah Jehan. British India under Charles I. Venice under Erizzo, &c. Scotland under Charles I. Germany under Ferdinand II. and III. Sweden under Charles IX. and Gustavus Adolphus. Ireland under Charles I. Laud. Lord Strafford. Coke. Quarles. Guido Reni. Rubens. Vandyck. Poussin. Domenichino. Descartes. Olivarez. Duke of Buckingham. Prince Rupert. Lord Falkland. Bishop Hall. Fuller. Ussher. Burton. Drummond. John Hales. Archbishop Abbott. Owen Felltham. Gunter. Herbert. Heylyn. Wotton. Speed. Selden. The Sandys. Massinger. Pococke. Gassendi. Hollar. Lely. Inigo Jones. Cotton. Longomontanus. Edward Fairfax. Oughtred. Episcopius. Wallenstein. Gellibrand. Callot. Mede. Greaves. Wormius. Bedell. Mersenne. Helmont. Sirmond. Scheiner. Snellius. Schopp. Salmasius. Riccioli. Roberval. Cavalieri. Hoffman. Horrox. Calderone. Meursius. Chillingworth. Gataker. Quevedo. Vossius. The Kirchers. Petavius. Heinsius. Geoffrey Hudson. Norwood. Vernier. Wallis. Aselli. . 209

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PERIOD XII. 1649 тo 1688-39 YEARS.

FROM THE COMMONWEALTH TO THE REVOLUTION.

CLXVI. THE COMMONWEALTH. 1649-1660. Escape of Charles II. The Woodstock Ghost. The Muggletonians. Persecutions for Witchcraft. Rsie of the Quakers. Fifth Monarchy Men. St. Helena, Ascension, Honduras, Cape of Good Hope, and Jamaica made English Colonies. Bands used by the Clergy. Turkey under Mohammed IV. Alexander VII., Pope,

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