The Busy Man's Hand-Book

Historical, geographical, scriptural, scientific, legal, social, mercantile and medical information, condensed into one volume for someone with no time to look further.

CHAPTER XIV

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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…

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