The Making of the British Isles: The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660The history of the British Isles is the story of four peoples linked together by a process of state building that was as much about far-sighted planning and vision as coincidence, accident and failure. It is a history of revolts and reversal, familial bonds and enmity, the study of which does much to explain the underlying tension between the nations of modern day Britain. The Making of the British Islesrecounts the development of the nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland from the time of the Anglo-French dual monarchy under Henry VI through the Wars of the Roses, the Reformation crisis, the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the Anglo-Scottish dynastic union, the British multiple monarchy and the Cromwellian Republic, ending with the acts of British Union and the Restoration of the Monarchy.
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... finally erupted in riots between their respective retainers at the Carmarthen sessions in 1529. Ap Gruffydd was eventually tried and executed on a trumped - up charge of treason in 1531 , but under the slack President Vesey disorders ...
... finally submitted to the king's demand for the surrender of their legislative independence by agreeing that henceforth no Convocation should be con- vened except by royal writ , that no new canons should be enacted without the king's ...
... finally the queen's cousin , the earl of Huntingdon ( 1572-95 ) . Yet the basic difficulty was the same : Elizabeth distrusted the northern nobles , who were solidly Catholic , and she opted to pack the administration with southerners ...
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The Making of the British Isles: The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660 Steven G. Ellis No preview available - 2007 |