The world: historical and actual . OLIVER CROMWELL. the wliil ? ;,he contestgained in stubbornness on both sides. There was trouble inScotland and Irelandalso, especially the for-mer. The king tried toforce Episcopacy uponthe Presbyterians acrossthe Tweed, and they were fired with Irish were less rebellious, for once, than theScotch, and were easily pacified by Strafford. That statesman was soelated with hissuccess in Dublinthat he persuadedthe king to callstill another reign. It meton the 3d of No-vember, 1640, andis known as thecelebrated Lone;Parli
The world: historical and actual . OLIVER CROMWELL. the wliil ? ;,he contestgained in stubbornness on both sides. There was trouble inScotland and Irelandalso, especially the for-mer. The king tried toforce Episcopacy uponthe Presbyterians acrossthe Tweed, and they were fired with Irish were less rebellious, for once, than theScotch, and were easily pacified by Strafford. That statesman was soelated with hissuccess in Dublinthat he persuadedthe king to callstill another reign. It meton the 3d of No-vember, 1640, andis known as thecelebrated Lone;Parliament. Oneof the first thingsit did was to im-peach died upon thescaffold the fol-lowing year. Laudwas sent to the Tower; a bill passed providingfor triennial meetings of parliament, and theabolition of that very odious secret tribunal, theStar Chamber. The more the king conceded, thelouder the demands for redress, and the more reso- =S5T ^2 364 THE STUARTS AND THE COMMONWEALTH. lute the Commons, the more arrogant d
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