 | John Mackintosh - 1890 - 398 pages
...will only say that so long as this Covenant is in force, whether it be with or without explanations, I have no more power in Scotland than as a Duke of...Venice, which I will rather die than suffer ; yet I command the giving ear to their explanations or to anything to win time." Hamilton saw that he could... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1896 - 412 pages
...Charles was still resolute. " I will only say," he wrote, " that so long as this Covenant is in force — whether it be with or without explanation — I have...time, which now I see is one of your chiefest cares." He added that he should not be sorry if the Covenanters even proceeded to call a Parliament and Assembly... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - 1900 - 1020 pages
...CHARLES i. tion of this damnable Covenant, I will only say that so long as this Covenant is in force, whether it be with or without explanation, I have no more power in Scotland than a duke of Venice would have. I will rather die than suffer it." The General Assembly of 1638 continued... | |
 | Henry Bradley Bell - 1905 - 364 pages
...by no means satisfied the King. " As concerning their damnable covenant," he writes to Hamilton, " whether it be with or without explanation, I have...Venice, which I will rather die than suffer, yet I command the giving ear to their explanation, or anything else to win time." l Very large concessions... | |
 | James Mackinnon - 1908 - 540 pages
...short time." "As concerning the explanation of their damnable Covenant," he added a fortnight later, " I have no more power in Scotland than as a Duke of...to the explanation, or anything else, to win time." Hamilton could only assure him that the war would be " a difficult work and bloody," and ask leave... | |
 | Charles Sanford Terry - 1920 - 760 pages
...yield would be an act of abdication . ' So long as this Covenant is in force, ' he wrote to Hamilton, ' I have no more power in Scotland than as a duke of Venice, which I will rather die than suffer.' He suspected collusion between English and Scottish Puritanism and the finger of France active in the... | |
 | Charles Sanford Terry - 1921 - 302 pages
...Crown's authority, and so Charles understood it. 'So long as this Covenant is in force,' he wrote, ' I have no more power in Scotland than as a duke of Venice, which I will rather die than suffer.' Being without material force to coerce rebellion, Charles played for delay, proposing to push his preparations... | |
 | Kevin Sharpe - 1996 - 1012 pages
...that of obedience to his authority. 'So long as this Covenant is in force,' he explained to Hamilton, 'I have no more power in Scotland than as a Duke of Venice, which I will rather die than suffer.'129 Because therefore he accepted Hamilton's counsel that 'not anything can reduce that people... | |
 | Ivan Alan Roots - 1998 - 188 pages
...Charles I certainly thought the Covenant anti-monarchical: 'so long as this Covenant is in force ... I have no more power in Scotland than as a Duke of Venice, which I will rather die than suffer'. Burnet, Memoires, pp. 59-61. See also W. Balcanquhal, A Large Declaration Concerning the Late Tumults... | |
 | Jonathan Scott - 2000 - 564 pages
...descended upon us over them'.85 'As Concerning the Explanation of their Damnable Covenant', he added, 'I have no more power in Scotland, than as a Duke of Venice, which I will rather dye than suffer', a prediction in which he proved as good as his word.86 Once again over the subsequent... | |
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I will only say, that so long as this Covenant is in force, whether it be with or without explanation, I have no more power in Scotland than as a duke of Venice, which I will rather die than suffer. 
