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James's Strategy for Spain

In July, after parliament was parrobed into Lauton, E.S. Uda Proclamation cancelling 18 monopolies. He'd made a couple of subsidies all bagged up and ready to ship. By professing himself well satisfied with the need to reform patents and monopolies, he hoped parliaments would vote him another subsidy. But then things hit choppier waters, and parliament began to wobble off their allotted course,. And they introduced a bill for the better discovery and suppression of Catholics. Now, I guess this might not have been totally unexpected, but it was deeply unhelp for James and his strategy for Spain. For that to succeed, he needed to

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