Excerpt from History of England, Vol. 1 of 2: The Accession of James I; The Disgrace of Chief-Justice Coke; 1603 1616
I cannot pretend that the period of the history which I have made the object of my special study is possessed of that striking dramatic interest which is to be found elsewhere. But I have long thought that, to the real student of history, there are few years which are more attractive than those which followed immediately the death of Elizabeth. They are interesting to those who would trace in the Stuart King and in the Stuart Parliament the outcome of those great principles which lay at the basis of the harmonious working of the Elizabethan Constitution. They are still more interesting to those wish to understand the great struggle of the seventeenth century. Indeed, it is not to much to say, that if is possible for those who begin their study of the English constitutional struggle at any later date to arrive at sound conclusions with respect to the principles at stake, it is utterly impossible for them to judge the actors fairly. It is only after investigating the circumstances under which certain dominant ideas have arisen, that it becomes possible to enter into the feelings of those who entertained them, and even approximately to draw the line which separates a blunder from a crime. It is for this reason that the first fourteen years of James I. are especially worthy of study.
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