Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First, King of England, Volume 1This is the first in a two-volume work that lends a greatly detailed history of the reign of King Charles I of England from his sickly youth and the death of his older brother, to his secret marriage negotiations in Spain, to his reign as King and his difficulties with the English Parliament. |
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