History of England: From the Accession of James I. To the Outbreak of the Civil War 1603-1642; 1639-1641 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from History of England: From the Accession of James I. To the Outbreak of the Civil War 1603-1642; 1639-1641

In one quarter only have I found any difficulty in procuring access to mss. Of importance. I regret that Lord fitzwilliam has not considered it to be consistent with his duty to allow me to see the Strafford correspondence preserved at Wentworth Woodhouse. On the other hand, the extracts from two un published Strafford letters preserved at Melbourne, which will be found at the opening of chapter lxxxix., will probably be te garded, by others as well as by myself, as being full of interest and I have been glad to be able to assign without doubt (p.199) the authorship of the petition of the twelve peers to Pym and St. John, and to state (p. In opposition to my former opinion, who were the personages with whom Henrietta Maria held secret interviews in February 1641.

It would not be becoming to enter into a criticism of modern writers, as the points at issue could only be made intelligible at far greater length than I have here at my disposal; but as it has been necessary in the interests of truth to speak clearly on the extreme carelessness of some of Mr. Forster's work, I should not like to be considered to be without sense of the high ser vices rendered by him to students of this period of history, especially in quickening an intelligent interest in the events of the seventeenth century. Nor will it, I trust, be presumptuous in me to record my admiration of the thoroughness and accuracy of the work of Mr. Sandford and Professor masson. I have thought it due to their high reputation to point out in every case the few inaccuracies in matters Of fact which I have de tected, excepting where the fault lay in their not having before them evidence which has been at my disposal. I have little doubt that if my work were subjected to as careful revision it would yield a far greater crop of errors.

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Excerpt from History of England: From the Accession of James I. To the Outbreak of the Civil War 1603-1642; 1639-1641

If I have striven, in the present volume, and in the one which will succeed it, to take a broader view of the deeds of the great men who made this England in which we live, and to realise and measure the greatness of Pym, as I have formerly attempted to realise and measure the greatness of Strafford, it must not be forgotten that this has been in great measure rendered possible by the amount of new material which has come into my hands, and which till very lately was entirely inaccessible. The invaluable diary of Sir Symonds d'Ewes, and the State Papers in the Public Record Office, have indeed been studied by previous inquirers, though I have found amongst them gleanings not wholly despicable. The Clarendon MSS., the Carte and Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian Library have also been helpful. But even if these mines had been more thoroughly worked than they have been, little or nothing would have been found in them to fill up the great deficiency which every previous historian of the period must have felt. The suspicions entertained of Charles I. by the Parliamentary leaders form the most prominent feature of the history of the Long Parliament.

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