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... Scotland , combating a violent and still powerful nobility and an angrily Calvinist clergy . ' St George ' , he had written , ' surely rides upon a towardly riding horse , while I am daily daunting a wild unruly colt . " His English ...
... Scotland , combating a violent and still powerful nobility and an angrily Calvinist clergy . ' St George ' , he had written , ' surely rides upon a towardly riding horse , while I am daily daunting a wild unruly colt . " His English ...
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... Scotland which preceded the Bishops ' Wars came as a shock to the English councillors of King Charles I. It seems probable that they came as a shock to King Charles himself . The unexampled authority that his father James VI had ...
... Scotland which preceded the Bishops ' Wars came as a shock to the English councillors of King Charles I. It seems probable that they came as a shock to King Charles himself . The unexampled authority that his father James VI had ...
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... Scotland . In many ways he was the type of the absentee Scot , rootless in England and uprooted from Scotland , a type which the circum- stances of the Union of the Crowns had made very frequent about the English Court . He surrounded ...
... Scotland . In many ways he was the type of the absentee Scot , rootless in England and uprooted from Scotland , a type which the circum- stances of the Union of the Crowns had made very frequent about the English Court . He surrounded ...
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