Excerpt from The History of the City of Exeter: With a Short Memoir of the Author, and an Appendix of Documents and Illustrations Elizabeth's persecution of the Catholics Charters of the city con firmed Loyalty of Exeter Title of Semper fidelis conferred Elizabeth's encouragement of commerce First Act for the relief of the poor Accession of James I. His predilection for the Scotch Parliamentary control over the Royal prerogative Charles I. Coronation repeated at Edinburgh Plague of 1625 Spread of disaffection Intolerance towards the Catholics Their adeption of the King's cause - Parliamentary party at Exeter Capitulation to Prince Maurice The Queen, a refugee at Exeter, gives birth to the Princess Henrietta She embarks at Falmouth Visit of the King to Exeter - The city surrenders to Fairfax Puritan desecration of the churches State prisoners and executions at Exeter Barbary pirates on the west coast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.