The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Soldier ?with Caliver (aWeapon Similar to theMtsket), Time of Eliza-beth. Note the curved stock amithe huge trigger, pulledby the whole hand. 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 smallerAmusemeEtSi n mi i j jit nre-arms. ihe tilts and tournaments haddied 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 British nation a history / by George MWrong . Soldier ?with Caliver (aWeapon Similar to theMtsket), Time of Eliza-beth. Note the curved stock amithe huge trigger, pulledby the whole hand. 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 smallerAmusemeEtSi n mi i j jit nre-arms. ihe tilts and tournaments haddied 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 Cliapters VIII and XI andthe works referred to in Traill: Social England, vol. iii.). PiKEMAN, Time of long-handled pike with a sliarp metal point had displaced the formerspear. The musket was the offensive, the pike the defensive weapon, un-til a later time when the bayonet was added to the musket and made thepike unnecessary. CHAPTER XIVThe Stuart Monarchy to the Execution of Charles T * (IGOo-lGlJ—46 years. James I born 1566; succeeded in Scotland 1567; England 1G03; died I 1000; 1025; 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 IV in 1610, CardinalRichelieu gained supreme power, and, Cardinal as he was, supportedthe German Protestants against Catholic Austria, wliile he crushedthe Protestant party at home. He died in 1642 just when civil warbroke out in England, and it was Car
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