The British nation a history / by George MWrong . England was found-ed, called the country XewAlbion. He had a naive planto get back into the Atlantic bya sea-passage at the north ofthe American continent; but,failing to find it, he resolved toreach home by going round Asiaand Africa, and in 1580 he ai-rived in England, having sailedround the world. His voyageproved momentous; he liad car-ried the English flag into new regions, and Englishmen felt henceforth that the wholeworld was open to their maritime enterprise. During the forty-four years of Elizabeths reign, Par-liament was called togeth
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . England was found-ed, called the country XewAlbion. He had a naive planto get back into the Atlantic bya sea-passage at the north ofthe American continent; but,failing to find it, he resolved toreach home by going round Asiaand Africa, and in 1580 he ai-rived in England, having sailedround the world. His voyageproved momentous; he liad car-ried the English flag into new regions, and Englishmen felt henceforth that the wholeworld was open to their maritime enterprise. During the forty-four years of Elizabeths reign, Par-liament was called together but thirteen times ; there wasthus on an average a session only once in ing so rarely, it was impossible that it shouldcontrol the policy of the Government. Elizabeth saidthat already there were laws enough, and she had no desireto see Parliament busy in making new ones. What sheexpected from it was votes of money, and her parsimonymade her in some degree independent even of this. Onthe whole, she showed great tact in dealing with successive. Sir Francis Drake(1645-1590). 320 THE BRITISH NATION Events iaIreland. Purliaments. They tried to interfere in lier Church policy,protested against her grants of monopolies, and showedin other ways a disposition to make their power obliged to give way, Elizabeth did it with a gracethat won their hearts. Throughout her reign Parliamentwas strongly Protestant, but toward the end we find Puri-tanism becoming unpopular, perhaps owing both to thestrong pressure of the crown and to the narrow vehemenceof the Puritans themselves. The greatest event of the later days of Elizabeth wasa revolt in Ireland, where things had gone badly sinceHenry VIIIs time. Ireland was supposed,like England, to have become Protestant, butno attempt had been made to teach Protes-tant doctrines ; even Mary could find no Protestant heresythere, and the people clung fervently to the old faith. But difEerences of raceare even more vitalthan those of faith,and
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