Example sentences of "of charles [adj] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1394 and 1396 negotiations continued , and in March 1396 the two sides agreed to a truce of twenty-eight years and the marriage of Richard II to one of Charles VI 's daughters , Isabella , who was to bring with her a large dowry . |
| 2 | Charles VI , now only occasionally lucid , was to remain king until his death , but in the meantime Henry would act as regent ( in effect , in control of the government ) succeeding to the crown when Charles died , a fact which was soon to be interpreted to imply English recognition of the legitimacy of Charles VI 's rule as king of France . |
| 3 | Here are represented the ‘ International Gothic ’ style of Charles IV 's court — a style that even influenced artists in that bastion of the Renaissance , Florence ; the Mannerist art of the 16 and early 17C ; and Czech Baroque , whose artists vied with those farther west in their range of subject matter and technique . |
| 4 | Paradoxically , it was the relative success of Charles III 's reforms in America — the first systematic overhaul of the imperial administration since the sixteenth century — that undermined the foundations of empire . |
| 5 | Like their Republican successors in the 1930's , the agrarian reformers of Charles III 's reign were obsessed by the violent social situation and the agrarian unemployment on the great latifundia and dehesas ( scrub pasture ) of Andalusia and Estremadura . |
| 6 | The regalist offensive of Charles III 's ministers , in spite of its respectable antecedents , was the most significant domestic issue in eighteenth-century politics . |
| 7 | The personal estate was distributed in accordance with rules laid down by the Statutes of Distribution of Charles II 's and James II's reigns . |
| 8 | The most influential philosopher to think about the problem of the ownership of empty land , John Locke , served as a secretary and adviser to yet another of the courtier-backed expansion schemes of Charles II 's reign ; he was agent to Lord Ashley , who later on as Lord Shaftesbury became a famous Whig leader but in 1663 was a well-placed courtier and one of a group who got a charter for a colony south of Virginia to be called Carolina . |
| 9 | The hearth tax returns of Charles II 's reign commonly record 40 per cent or more of the urban population as being exempt from payment of the tax on the grounds of their poverty . |
| 10 | It is true that the government used all the influence it could to secure the return of loyal members , and the purges of borough corporations at the end of Charles II 's reign certainly had an electoral impact , but the election of such a loyal Parliament appears to have been more the result of a genuine reaction against the Whigs amongst the electorate than it was of Court manipulation . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the issues which created the divide during the Exclusion Crisis were not new ; concerns about the prospect of a popish successor , the growth of popery and arbitrary government , and the nature of government in both Church and State , had been creating tensions long before Titus Oates made the revelations which were to precipitate the political crisis at the end of Charles II 's reign . |
| 12 | He was created one of Charles I 's first Baronets , and Charles II stayed at Borwick in 1651 en route for Worcester . |
| 13 | From 1629 to 1632 he held leases in Malvern Chase , which included Longdon Marsh , and in 1632 he bought part of Charles I 's share of King 's Sedgemoor in Somerset . |
| 14 | Original entrance arches , terraces , ponds , King Charles ' Walk , a reminder of Charles I 's four months ' imprisonment here after his defeat in the Civil War . |
| 15 | He was regarded by Sir John Eliot [ q.v. ] as one of the ablest and most articulate critics of Charles I 's government . |
| 16 | For example , six of the nine sermons delivered before the House of Commons on 30 January ( the anniversary of Charles I 's execution ) between 1688 and 1700 explicitly condemned the deposition of kings . |
| 17 | The Whigs drew comparisons between the Tories and the Cavaliers of Charles I 's reign , a heritage which the Tories were often not coy about acknowledging . |
| 18 | For much of the next generation there could scarcely be said to be such a thing as a French army , for a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's soldiers came from Scotland . |
| 19 | In the decade 1420–30 , a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's army was composed of Scots who fought at both Cravant and Verneuil , a strong contingent of Genoese also taking part in this second battle against the English . |
| 20 | Indeed , in the aftermath of Charles V 's victory over the Protestants at the battle of Muhlberg in 1547 , Edward 's England had become the refuge for a number of important refugees , including Peter Martyr and Martin Bucer . |