History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the Civil War 1603-1642 Volume 6 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...to his islands. On August 28 Wallenstein was marching past Hamburg at the head of 25,000 men. A few days later one of his lieutenants smote heavily upon the Margrave of Baden at Heiligenhafen. Excepting three or four fortified towns there was nothing to resist the Imperialists but the ocean.3 The remnants of Morgan's men were called across the Elbe. The money brought by Clarke had proved useless. There was Mise r some confusion in the accounts, and the merchant Morgan's who was to pay the bills of exchange refused to do so. Morgan borrowed 3,000 dollars on his own credit; but this would not last long. "What service," he wrote in despair, "can the King expect or draw from these unwilling men? Thus I have been vexed all this summer, and could do nothing but what pleased them Their officers had little com 1 Instructions to Clarke, July 27, J. P. Denmark. Clarke to Conway, Aug. 20, ibid. s Anstruther to Conway, Sept. 1; Clarke to Conway, Sept. 7, ibid. 1627 VIOLATION OF NEUTRALITY. 187 mand over them, and by these reasons the King had no great services from us.... I could have wished our men had died at the point of the sword, rather than live to see those miseries we are in, and like to be still worse." 1 It was not owing to Charles's wisdom that he had war with only half Europe on his hands. The art of giving up his Blockade of rights from motives of policy was entirely unknown Hamburg. to hml 11 through the summer, when it was of the utmost importance to conciliate the Germans of the North, an English fleet, under Sir Sackville Trevor, had been lying off the Elbe and stopping the whole commerce of Hamburg by prohibiting trade with France or Spain. At last Trevor was recalled, to take measures against a State more powerful than Hamburg. W...