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Title: A history of mediæval and modern Europe for secondary schools
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Davis, William Stearns, 1877-1930 McKendrick, Norman Shaw, 1876-
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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onal advantages thereby. Mary was beautifuland charming. She was almost as able as Elizabeth; she hadthe support of the great influence of the Catholic Church andthe favor also of France, but she did not have Elizabethssanity and poise in great crises. It seemed, however, not verydifficult to win back the Scottish lords, then to stir up Catholicdisaffection in England, and drive Anne Boleyns daughterfrom the throne. Yet Mary failed absolutely, partly because her intrigueswere thwarted by dour John Knox, the famous ScottishCalvinist preacher, who warned his countrymen against herundertakings; partly through her most unfortunate marriageand its results. In 1565, she had married her cousin, a LordDarnley, and by him had a son (the future James I of England),but by 1567, the queen and her weak and debauched husbandwere hopelessly estranged. Darnley perished in a gunpowderexplosion undoubtedly planned by Marys lover, the infamousEarl of Bothwell, probably with the guilty knowledge of Mary,
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TiT;*^^?^ ----■: ELIZABETH Queen of England (1558-1603). In the superb dress in which she went to St. PaulsBorn 1533 Died 1603 THE AGE OF PHILIP AND ELIZABETH 261 whom he soon married.^ The outraged Scots flew to arms andoverpowered their queen. Mary was imprisoned; then escapedand gathered an army. At Langside, in 1568, her troops wererouted, and a regency ruled in Scotland in the name of herinfant son. Mary was driven to seek refuge in England, whereElizabeth received her with cold courtesy, but held her a stateprisoner, as it proved, for life. 146. William the Silent and the revolt of the Netherlands.And now came on the scene the second great enemy of Philip— William, Prince of Orange, called, for his wise habit ofreticence on proper occasions, William the Silent.- Justwhen the failure of Mary released Philip largely from the fearof a French domination in England, and left him free to attackElizabeth himself, the richest portion of his empire, underWilliams leadership, rose in

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