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THE

PARLIAMENTARY

OR

CONSTITUTIONAL

History of England,

From the earlieft T LME S,

TO THE

Reftoration of King CHARLES II.

COLLECTED

From the RECORDS, the ROLLS of Parliament, the JOURNALS
of both Houses, the Public LIBRARIES, Original MANU-
SCRIPTS, fcarce SPEECHES, and TRACTS; all compared
with the feveral Contemporary Writers, and connected,
throughout, with the Hiftory of the Times.

By SEVERAL HAN D S.

THE SECOND EDITION.

IN TWENTY-FOUR VOLUME S.

VOL. V.

From the Acceffion of King James I. to the Twenty-firft Year of his

Reign.

LONDON,

Printed for J. and R. TONSON, and A. MILLAR, in the
Strand; and W. SANDBY, in Fleet-street.

M DCCLXIII.

1

THE

PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY

OF

ENGLAND.

A

The Acceffion of

FTER the Death of the laft Queen, James King of Scotland, the King James I. Sixth of that Name, fucceeded to the English Crown. In this Prince did center all the Hereditary Titles that were ever made to that Diadem; and, it is obfervable that this Claim was contrary to an Act of Parliament, which, impowered King Henry VIII. in Failure of all his own Iffue, to fettle the Crown on whom he pleafed by his last Will (a). In Pursuance of which he bequeathed it to the Iffue of his younger Sifter Mary, the French Queen, afterwards married to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Queen Elizabeth might therefore have fixed the Succeffion, no Doubt, exclufive of the Scotch Line; but he was too just a Princess to do, or fuffer it to be done : Nor did the Suffolk Family ever think fit to make any Stir about their Claim. Indeed, it would have given a much deeper Stain to the greatest Blemish VOL. V.

Α

(4) See Vol. III. p. 198

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