The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Soldier with Caliver iaWeapon Similar to tiik MUSKETI, OK Note tlic curved slock multlic huge trigger, iiulledbv tlie wliole liaiiil. THE ENGLAND OF ELIZABETH 335 of fashionable life. Archery was still to be seen on vil-lage greens, though the age saw the final displacement of the bow as a military weapon by the smaller Amusements. r> rm ±-m. t i_ l t -i nre-arms. ihe tilts ami tournaments had died out, but gentlemen still wore armour as a protec-tion in hand-to-hand fighting and from the bullets of themusket. (Aspects of
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Soldier with Caliver iaWeapon Similar to tiik MUSKETI, OK Note tlic curved slock multlic huge trigger, iiulledbv tlie wliole liaiiil. THE ENGLAND OF ELIZABETH 335 of fashionable life. Archery was still to be seen on vil-lage greens, though the age saw the final displacement of the bow as a military weapon by the smaller Amusements. r> rm ±-m. t i_ l t -i nre-arms. ihe tilts ami tournaments had died out, but gentlemen still wore armour as a protec-tion in hand-to-hand fighting and from the bullets of themusket. (Aspects of the social life of the time are dealt with in the worksnoted in the previous chapters. See also Chapters YIII and XI andhe works referred to in Traill: >Social England, vol. iii.). PiKKMAN, Time of long-handled pike with a sjiarp metal point had displaced the formerspear. The musket was the offensive, the pike the defensive weapon, un-til a later time when the hayonel was added to tlie musket and made thepike unnecessary. CHAPTER XIYThe Stuart Monarchy to the Execution of Charles I* (1603-1649—46 years; James I born 1566; succeeded in Scotland 1567; England 1603; died I 1600; 1625; 1649. [The age is one of varied movements, but the dominant note isthat of religious strife. The terrible Thirty Years War between theRoman Catholic and Protestant parties in Germany lasted from 1618to 1648, and was a disturbing factor in English foreign France, after the assassination of Henry ^ .n 1610, CardinalRichelieu gained supreme power, and, Card:.:^i as he was, supportedthe German Protestants against Catholic Austria, while he crushedthe Protestant party at home. He died in 1642 just when civil warbroke out in England, and it was Card
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