История Англии в трёх томах, т. I, часть D

VOLUME ONE: The History Of England From The Invasion Of Julius Cæsar To The End Of The Reign Of James The Second............ By David Hume, Esq. VOLUME TWO: Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II........................................... by Tobias Smollett. VOLUME THREE: From the Accession of George III. to the Twenty-Third Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria............... by E. Farr and E.H. Nolan. VOLUME ONE Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. CHAPTER XXXVIII. CONTEMPORARY MONARCHS. EMP. OP GERM. K. OF SCOTLAND. K. OF FRANCE. K. OF SPAIN. Ferdinand..1564 Mary abdicates.1567 Henry II....1559 Philip II.1598 Maximilian.1576 James VI. Francis II..1560 Philip III. Rodolph II. Charles IX..1574 Henry III.. 1589 Henry IV. POPES. Paul IV.... 1558 Pius IV.... 1565 Pius V..... 1572 Gregory XIII.1585 Sixtus V... 1590 Urban VII.. 1590 Gregory XIV. 1591 Innocent IX. 1591 Clement VII. {1558.} In a nation so divided as the English, it could scarcely be expected that the death of one sovereign, and the accession of another, who was generally believed to have embraced opposite principles to those which prevailed, could be the object of universal satisfaction: yet so much were men displeased with the present conduct of affairs, and such apprehensions were entertained of futurity, that the people, overlooking their theological disputes, expressed a general and unfeigned joy that the sceptre had passed into the hand of Elizabeth.…