Excerpt from An History of England, in a Series of Letters From a Nobleman to His Son, Vol. 2 Ni! V ER did, monarch come to the throne of England with a teater variety of favourable con currenees than harles 1. He found A D 6 himfelf pofl'effed of a peaceful and I 27 flourishing kingdom, his right undifputed by rival claimants fircngthened by an alliance with one of the mofi powerful monarchs that ever reigned in France, whofe filler he had married; and, to add to all this, loved b his fubjeels, whom he had won by. His fvirtucsan addrcfs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.