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Identifier: magazineofamericv26stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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took no part in politics, though she was denied the fullenjoyment of her religion. Emperor Charles V. threatened war if shewere not exempted from the penalties prepared for non-conformists, andshe was suspected of intending to take refuge at his court. This greatemperor lost the most magnificent opportunity of that remarkable centurythrough wholly misunderstanding the age in which he lived. Althoughhalf of the globe was his by inheritance he was much too dextrous inpetty intrigues to guide and govern and develop his vast possessions.During the thirty years of his reign he might easily have moulded thegreat reformation to his will and opened North America to civilization.But his energies were frittered away and wasted, and he left at his deathboth the church and the state in wretched disorder, having set one-half ofChristendom in arms against the other and permanently arrested theprogress of southern Europe. His famous abdication of his numerous SOME OF QUEEN ISABELLA S DESCENDANTS 407
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QUEEN MARY I. OF ENGLAND, GRANDDAUGHTER OF QUEEN ISABELLA OF SPAIN. (Facsimile of a painting in possession of Rt. Hon. the Earl of Oxford^ crowns in 1555 ln favor of his son Philip II. is well known, to whom alsohe would have resigned the empire had not Germany held the youngprince in great aversion on account of his Spanish education and bigotedideas; that crown was therefore transferred to the emperors brotherFerdinand. 408 SOME OF QUEEN ISABELLAS DESCENDANTS Henry VIII. had been succeeded by his son Edward VI., when ten yearsold, whose uncle, the Duke of Somerset, acted as regent with the title oflord-protector. In the six years following, the reformation made greatprogress in England. But when John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, obtainedthe ascendancy and caused Somerset to be executed, the boy king waspersuaded to exclude Mary and Elizabeth from the throne. He died in1553, and Mary succeeded him after a brief but fierce struggle with thepartisans of Dudley and the Greys. In the first p

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