The following lines she wrote with charcoal on a window-shutter, while under severe restraint at Woodstock : Oh Fortune! how thy restless wavering state Thou causedst the guilty to be loosed So God send to my foes all they have thought. A.D. MDCL. The succeeding Stanzas, from the Ashmolean Museum, signed "ELIZA REGINA, upon Mount Zeurs departure," may serve to show the state of Elizabeth's heart, and the strength of her passions at fifty-two, when, it is supposed, she entertained "an uncontrolable passion, which carried her very absurd lengths," for the Duke of Anjou, between whom and herself a treaty of marriage had been nearly concluded. CIVIL AND MILITARY HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN. I grieve, yet dare not shew my discontent; I dote, I dote, but dare not say I ever meant ; I seem stark mute, but inwardly do prate. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Some gentler passion steals into my mind, Let me, or float or sink, be high or low. She published a Comment on Plato several Translations from Greek to Latin; part of Sallust into English; and many devotional Tracts, Letters, &c. END OF PART THE EIGHTH. ENGLAND. ENGLAND. PART THE NINTH. From the Accession of James I. to the Restoration. CONTENTS. James I.-Gunpowder Treason.-Charles I.-Civil Wars, and Martyrdom of the King.-The Commonwealth.-Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.-Richard Cromwell.-Restoration and Accession of Charles II. SUMMARY SUMMARY OF THE REIGN OF JAMES THE FIRST. Born at Edinburgh Castle, June 19th. Crowned King of Scotland, 1557-of England, July 25th, 1603. Married Ann, Daughter of Frederic II. King of Denmark and Norway, by Sophia of Mecklenburgh; by whom he had issue, Henry, Prince of Wales, a most accomplished Prince, who died, unmarried, Nov. 6th, 1612; Robert, died young; Charles, who succeeded to the crown of Great Britain; Elizabeth, married February 14th, 1613, to Frederick V. Elector Palatine, and afterwards King of Bohemia; from whom are descended the family now on the Throne, their Daughter Sophia having given birth to George I.; Margaret, born in Scotland; and Mary and Sophia, born in England, died infants. James reigned Twenty-two Years. Died of a tertian ague, March 27th, 1625, in the 59th Year of his age, and was buried at Westminster. PRINCIPAL EVENTS. Sir Walter Raleigh's conspiracy, and execution fourteen Years after his sentence; in which interval he had been entrusted with the post of Admiral and General of an expedition. Peace with Spain. Gunpowder Treason-a plot to blow up the King and Parliament with thirty-six barrels of powder. Sir Thomas Overbury poisoned. The great Lord Bacon disgraced for peculation. The House of Commons, on account of the King's partiality to his favorites, Carr and Villiers, endeavour to abridge the Royal Prerogative. The New River, Thames, York Buildings, and Chelsea, Water-Works established. EMINENT PERSONS. Henry, Prince of Wales. Carr, Earl of Somerset. Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. Lord Chancellor Bacon. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE. Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Hugh Middleton. Sir G. Carew, Earl of Totness. W. Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. Sir Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester. E. Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon, &c. &c Of Germany.-Rodolphus II. 1576. Matthias I. 1612. Ferdinand II. 1619. Of the Turks.-Achmet I. 1603, Mustapha I. 1617. Osman I. 1618. Mustapha I. restored, 1622. Amurath IV. 1623. Kings. Of France. Henry IV. 1589. Louis XIII. 1610. Of Spain and Philip III. 1597. Philip IV. 1621. Portugal.S Of Denmark.-Christian IV. 1588. Of Sweden.-Sigismund, 1592. tavus II. 1611, Charles IX. 1606. Gus HOUSE |