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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3Ill THE PROBLEM OF
CONSISTENCY With the possible exception of Mary Stuart, hardly a
character in all English history has been more discussed than
Charles I. From the time he was born, opinions about him. differed;
during his life-time, blood was freely shed for and against him;
since his death he has been vilified and canonized, the eulogiums
of Dr. Sacheverell being succeeded by the harsh judgments of
Macaulay and his ilk. If there is one man whose opinions on Charles
should be worthier of acceptance than another's, it is Dr.
Gardiner. The briefest way of testing his views on this violent
controversy is to examine his opinions on what has been for at
least two centuries its moot point, the Eikon Basilike." Dr.
Gardiner declared in the ninth volume of the textit{History of
England, that it was a matter of indifference whether Charles or
Gauden wrote that book, but he adds: "What I am concerned to affirm
is that Charles's real character and views are portrayed in the
book."1 What he thought the book showed Charles to be appears in
the last volume of the textit{Great Civil War, where he says that
the book is "a spiritual revelation of the inmost thoughts of the
justest of sovereigns and the most self-denying of martyrs." His
earlier idea that this was Charles's real character, he has now
given up, for he goes on to say that the book "served to create an
ideal image of Charles," and possessed "enough of dramatic veracity
to convince all textit{who were prepared to believe it, that they
had before them the real thoughts of the man."2 He then explains
that this ideal view of the King secured its hold on men's
imaginations because "it faithfully reproduced at least one side of
Charles's character." Gardiner has thus said that this book shows
us the real Charles, that it portrays an ideal Charles so unlike
t...
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
CHAPTER II THE ORIGIN OF THE HIGH COMMISSION First Phase
(continued): The Actual Working Of Ecclesiastical Commissions,
1535-80. Until 1565 the chief work performed by these commissions
was visitatorial, and their functions, authority, and personnel
were dictated largely by expediency. They were intended to cope
with such cases as might need the supreme authority of the Crown,
and were to lapse as soon as their work was done. Nor can there be
much reason to doubt the ubiquity of the Commissioners for the
Province of Canterbury from 1549 to 55- While it is impossible to
demonstrate definitely what part theyplayed, they probably had a
share in everything of importance and in much that was not
important. But the growth of such an institution as the Court of
High Commission must be sought in the procedure, jurisdiction,
personnel of these commissions, rather than in a list of
monasteries dissolved, heretics tried, and bishops deposed, even
could we positively identify all the cases. We know little of the
methods employed by these commissioners. We can often learn what
they did, but rarely, if ever, find out anything definite about the
way they did it. In the accounts of trials for heresy, no mention
is usually made of the authority under which the judge or judges
were proceeding, nor of the form and limitations of their
commission, nor even whether they sat by commission at all. So many
kinds of commissions, general, special, local, and those for the
trial of a single case, existed at the same time, and so few
details of any heresy proceedings are preserved, that it is
practically impossible to distinguish the acts of one from those of
another with any approach to certainty. Disciplinary authority over
heretics, moreover, was by no means delegated exclusively to
commissi...
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