England Under the Tudors: King Henry VII (Classic Reprint)

AUTHOR'S PREFACE. Q I To my kind and fatherly friend and teacher I dedicate this opening volume of my work, as a humble offering, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day on which he entered upon his first regular duties as Professor of history. What I here present is the outcome and expansion of the studies begun under his guidance. I purpose writing the history of the Tudor period, in a series of six volumes, down to the death of Elizabeth; and though in the titles I cannot conveniently indicate this, I propose that every two volumes shall definitely comprise one of the following principal epochs in the development of this period :-First, the establishment and building up of the new Tudor Absolutism by Henry VII. and Cardinal Wolsey; secondly, the struggle over the Church begun by this absolute monarchy with the schism under Henry VIII.; finally, the completion of the whole work of the century in the age of Elizabeth. My first intention was to treat of the time

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CONTENTS ; • 01; INTRODUCTION By JAMES GAIRDNER; AUTHOJl'S PREFACE •••; AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER; I EARLY HISTORY OF HENRY VII; II FOREIGN COMPLICATIONS: FRANCE, BRITTANY, SPAIN; COMMERCIAL POLICY; III PERKIN W ARBECK; IV RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN POWERS, 1495-1503;; SPANISH AND THE SCOTCH MARRIAGES; COMMERCE AND DISCOVERIES; V THE EARL OF SUFFOLK •••; VI HENRY'S MATRIMONIAL SCHEMES; RELATIONS WITH ROME, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND; VII MONARCHICAL POLICY; THE; COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, AGRICULTURE, LABOUR LAWS; JUDICIAL REFORMS •••; ADMINISTRATION OF FINANCE •• ,; ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTISM; HENRY'S PERSONAL CHARACTER AND DEATH; ApPENDIX 1 Notes ••; To THE INTRODUCTION AND CHAPTER I; To CHAPTER II; To CHAPTER III; To CHAPTER IV; To CHAPTER V; To CHAPTER VI; To CHAPTEJl VII; PAGE; v-viii; xi-xiii; 1-11; 12-39; 40-82; 68-82; 83-121; 122-164; 147-164; 165-198; 199-240; 228-240; 241-317; 241- 266; 266-280; 280-291; 291-304; 3