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Page 70
... Elizabeth . The manufacture of wool alone employed two hundred factories and thirty thousand workmen . The cloth annually produced sold , at an average , for twelve hundred thousand florins , a sum fully equal , in exchangeable value 70 ...
... Elizabeth . The manufacture of wool alone employed two hundred factories and thirty thousand workmen . The cloth annually produced sold , at an average , for twelve hundred thousand florins , a sum fully equal , in exchangeable value 70 ...
Page 118
... Elizabeth persecuted neither Papists nor Puritans as such , and that the severe measures which she occasionally adopted were dic- tated , not by religious intolerance , but by political necessity . Even the excellent account of those ...
... Elizabeth persecuted neither Papists nor Puritans as such , and that the severe measures which she occasionally adopted were dic- tated , not by religious intolerance , but by political necessity . Even the excellent account of those ...
Page 119
... offer a few remarks on it . In the first place , the arguments which are urged in favour of Elizabeth apply with much greater force to the case of her sister Mary . The Catholics HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY . 119.
... offer a few remarks on it . In the first place , the arguments which are urged in favour of Elizabeth apply with much greater force to the case of her sister Mary . The Catholics HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY . 119.
Page 120
... Elizabeth's accession , rise in arms to seat a Pretender on her throne . But before Mary had given , or could give , provocation , the most dis- tinguished Protestants attempted to set aside her rights in favour of the Lady Jane . That ...
... Elizabeth's accession , rise in arms to seat a Pretender on her throne . But before Mary had given , or could give , provocation , the most dis- tinguished Protestants attempted to set aside her rights in favour of the Lady Jane . That ...
Page 121
... Elizabeth put Ballard and Babington to death , she was not persecuting . Nor should we have accused her government of persecution for passing any law , however severe , against overt acts of sedition . But to argue that , because a man ...
... Elizabeth put Ballard and Babington to death , she was not persecuting . Nor should we have accused her government of persecution for passing any law , however severe , against overt acts of sedition . But to argue that , because a man ...
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