CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XIV
From the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century, to the Peace of Westphalia. THE seventeenth century, at its commencement, found Spain…
CHAPTER XIV: Henry
The good and great Henry IV., king of France, whose excellent qualities were not thoroughly appreciated in his own age, was assassinated…
CHAPTER XIV: Ferdinand
On the death of Mathias, Ferdinand, who had succeeded him as king of Bohemia and Hungary, was raised to the imperial throne. The Bohemian…