The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and a View of the Progress of Society from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763 : in a Series of Letters, Volume 2

William Young Birch and Abraham Small, 1802

OF	1

The King obliged to resign the government	10

The German Empire and its Dependencies Rome and	15

Expedition of the new Emperor into Italy	22

He assumes the reins of government but falls into a	28

tinction murdered	34

The Count of Armagnac and many other persons of dis	40

Prudent measures of the Duke of Bedford	44

Battle of Pavia Feb 24	235

Description of the meeting of that council and an	241

LETTER LIX	244

Page	250

Indecent display of the resentment of Francis	256

The emperor punishes them with awful severity	262

Condemnation and death of John Huss	265

Execution of the duke of Buckingham	272

Recovers many places	50

Death of Frederick III	54

LETTER XLVIII	61

Queen Margaret and the Scots defeated at Hexham	70

of the nobles	88

They rebel against	89

Charles VIII his son unites Britanny to the kingdom	96

Character of Mahomet II	106

The Infanta Isabella married to Ferdinand prince of	112

Establish the Court of Inquisition	114

Accession of Ferdinand and Isabella	121

Invades France	122

Page	125

Committed to the Tower and hanged for a conspiracy	130

LETTER LIII	134

Invades Italy and conquers the duchy of Milan	143

Page	147

Lewis XII in consequence of this threatened invasion	153

Death of the Emperor Robert	159

Death of Ferdinand the Catholic King of Spain	161

LETTER LVI	170

LETTER LVII	188

Patronized by Isabella queen of Spain and sails from	199

His death and character	205

Page	211

The French again invade Italy and lose another army 242	216

The Emperor Charles V artfully pays a visit to	220

Page	223

The French stript of all their territories there ibid	229

Final rupture between Henry and the see of Rome	278

Page	279

The law of the Six Articles	285

Marries Catharine Par widow of Lord Latimer	291

Protests against the translation of the General Council	307

Affecting circumstances with which it was accompa	313

Sigismund enlists them in his army and leads them	321

He demands in vain the liberty of the Landgrave ibid	323

Somerset obliged to return in order to quell the cabals	334

The succession to the Crown settled on Lady Jane Gray	340

Page	349

LETTER LXIII	355

Recess of Augsburg ibid	363

Arrogance of pope Paul IV ibid	369

Page	372

Death of Charles IX 459	375

Close of a memorable period in the History of Modern	379

Death and character of Gustavus ibid	386

Page	387

Their maxims of policy	410

Assassination of the Duke of Guise ibid	415

The queen of Scots accedes to that confederacy ibid	421

Short reign of Albert II	431

Intrigues and murder of the Duke of Gloucester	439

The confederacy for that purpose discovered and	443

It is discovered and the duke of Norfolk is condemned	453

They obtain advantageous terms of peace ibid	459

LETTER	460

Battle of Lepanto ibid	466

Title	The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and a View of the Progress of Society from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763 : in a Series of Letters, Volume 2 Issue 3033 of Early American imprints The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and a View of the Progress of Society from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763 : in a Series of Letters, William Russell
Author	William Russell
Edition	2
Publisher	William Young Birch and Abraham Small, 1802
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	15 Jan 2009

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