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| | British Academy - O Brave New World? The Union of England and Scotland in 1603 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | And although, as in England, the Reformation produced in Scotland a new definition of identity, it was focused on an elect nation covenanted with God, the nation where ‘one of the purest kirks under heaven’ could be found, rather than a nation whose religious destiny came increasingly to be identified with combat with Catholic Spain. |
 | | England embarked on four inglorious years of war, only to find that she was utterly incapable of meeting the demands of modern warfare. |
 | | England was, after all, already the centre of a multiple monarchy, with its satellite and reluctant kingdom of Ireland and the principality of Wales. |
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