History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2

The Project Gutenberg EBook of History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain., by William H. Prescott This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain. Author: William H. Prescott Release Date: May 30, 2010 [EBook #32600] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PHILIP THE SECOND *** Produced by Paul Murray, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net PHILIP THE SECOND. From the Original by Titian in the Royal Museum at Madrid. London, George Routledge & Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill. HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF P H I L I P T H E S E C O N D , KING OF SPAIN. BY W I L L I A M H . P R E S C O T T , CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF HISTORY AT MADRID, ETC. V O L U M E S F I R S T A N D S E C O N D . COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. L O N D O N G E O R G E R O U T L E D G E A N D S O N S T H E B R O A D W A Y , L U D G A T E N E W Y O R K . 4 1 6 , B R O O M E S T R E E T . Contents Footnotes PREFACE. {iii}The reign of Philip the Second has occupied the pen of the historian more frequently— if we except that of Charles the Fifth—than any other portion of the Spanish annals.