Note (62) — Chapter II
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On the effects of the reign of Charles the Fifth in Spain and his overthrow of the liberties of Castile, see the general view in Robertson, iii. 434, though in his narrative (ii. 186) he glorifies the King’s clemency. See also the first chapter of the sixth book of Prescott’s Philip the Second, and on the suppression of the constitution of Aragon by Philip, Watson, Philip the Second, iii. 223.
The last meeting of the French States-General before the final meeting in 1789 was that in 1614, during the minority of Lewis the Thirteenth. See Sismondi, xiii. 342.