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THE

HISTORY

OF

MODERN EUROPE.

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF

THE DECLINE AND FALL

THE

ROMAN EMPIRE,

AND A VIEW OF

THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY.

FROM THE

RISE of the MODERN KINGDOMS

то THE

PEACE of PARIS, in 1763.

IN A

SERIES of LETTERS from a NOBLEMAN to his Son.

A NEW EDITION, carefully corrected.

VOL. II.

LONDON,

Printed for G. G. J. and J. ROBINSON, Paternofter-row; and A. HAMILTON, jun. Falcon-court, Fleet-ftreet. 1789.

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1400 Henry perfecutes the followers of Wickliffe, the first English reformer, in order to procure the fupport of the clergy 11 Rebellion of Owen Glendour in Wales The Scots make incurfions into England

1402 Defeated at Homeldon

12

ibid.

ibid.

The Earl of Northumberland, in disgust, förms an alliance with

Glendour

13

1403 The rebels defeated with great flaughter near Shrewsbury 14 1409 The Welsh submit

1413 Death and character of Henry IV.

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The German Empire and its Dependencies, Rome and the Italian States, from the Accession of Winceflaus to the Death of Sigifmund.

1378 Winceflaus fucceeds his father, Charles IV. in the imperial

1379

1383

throne

Gives himself up to all kinds of debauchery

Sequel of the story of Joan, queen of Naples

She is fmothered between two mattresses

17

18

ibid.

19

Exploits of Margaret, queen of Denmark, furnamed the Semiramis of the North

1399 The Emperor Winceflaus depofed

Election of Robert, Count Palatine of the Rhine

1101 Expedition of the new Emperor into Italy

20

ibid.

ibid.

21

1409 Diforders in Bohemia, occafioned by the preaching of John

Hufs

22

The Church of Rome distracted by what is called the Grand
Schifm of the Weft

1410 Death of the Emperor Robert

23

ibid.

1411 Sigifmund, brother of Winceflaus, fucceeds to the imperial

throne

ibid.

ibid.

He convokes the council of Conftance, with the concurrence of the Pope

1414 Defcription of the meeting of that council, and an account of

its decrees

1415 Condemnation and death of John Hufs

Proceedings against the Anti-pope, Peter de Luna

1416 Trial and fufferings of Jerom of Prague

1417 The fchifm in the church closed

1419 The Huffites in Bohemia, under Zifka, revenge the

their apostle

24

26

ibid.

27

28

death of

29

1437 Sigifmund enlifts them in his army, and leads them against the

Turks

30

1438 His death and character

ibid,

A narrow

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