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The Life and Times of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
Reproduction of the original.
Buckingham
Recounts the life of the first Duke of Buckingham, describes his relationships with James I and Charles I, and examines his role in English politics.
The Life and Times of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: From Original and Authentic Sources (Complete)
The historians who attribute the calamities of the Great Rebellion to the misrule of James the First, under the pernicious influence of his favourites, draw a lively parallel between the condition of England at the accession of that monarch and the state of peril and embarrassment with which his great predecessor had to contend. Elizabeth, whose inauguration, long celebrated, after her death, as a day of jubilee, was regarded as the commencement of national prosperity, came to the throne under very adverse circumstances. The functions of Government were clogged with debt. The miserable state of the navy required a constant vigilance to repel the chance of invasion, and to drive away pirates ...
