
The Living Age Volume 191
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... advance to London and take possession of the government, Cardinal Allen inviting the English nobility to join in restoring the Church. But to Parma himself were given instructions, also secr...
Paperback: 660 pages
Publisher: RareBooksClub.com (March 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1130758664
ISBN-13: 978-1130758665
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.3 x 9.7 inches
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t, of a more temperate kind, which the duke was to deliver to him. If the Armada won a battle, or if the enemy feared to encounter it, he was to pass over with his army in the name of God and carry out the purpose agreed upon. Should the success, however, be less complete, and should he think peace desirable, he would use the presence of the fleet to enforce favorable conditions. It was indispensable that the Catholics should be allowed their services and the ports in Holland be restored. He might demand compensation for past injuries, but this might be sacrificed if he could obtain religious liberty for the English Catholics. He might argue that the Huguenots were tolerated in France, and if it was answered that they were not tolerated in Flanders, he might say that the case was different. He might demand hostages also, and retain certain fortified positions on the coast to be held for a number of years, till it could be seen how things would go. In that case the Isle of Wight might be useful, as the Armada could lie in the Solent. Disaster it is evident that Philip did not anticipate. Something less than complete success he probably did anticipate, and on the whole might prefer it. Satisfied with having provided for all contingencies, he was now only anxious to see the Armada on its way; while the nuns and hermits had removed the alarms of Medina Sidonia, had convinced him that God could not neglect a business in which he was so peculiarly concerned, and that, in the fine language of theological knighterrantry, the service which he was to execute had been specially r...
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