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King and Commonwealth

by Bertha Meriton Gardiner and J. Surtees Phillpotts

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  1. 1Notes
  2. 2Epigraph — Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — Constitutional Introduction — Governments of Elizabeth…
  4. 4Chapter II — Charles’ First Parliaments — Impeachment of Buckingham…
  5. 5Chapter III — Eleven Years of Arbitrary Government — 1629–1640
  6. 6Chapter IV — Meeting of Long Parliament and Trial of Strafford — 16…
  7. 7Chapter V — Grand Remonstrance — Impeachment of Five Members — 1641…
  8. 8Chapter VI — First Years of the War — Battles of Edgehill and Newbu…
  9. 9Chapter VII — Rise of Independents — Battle of Marston Moor — Self-…
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Naseby — End of War (1645–1646)
  11. 11Chapter IX — Presbyterians, Independents, Erastians, and Their Theo…
  12. 12Chapter X — Triumph of the Army Over Parliament — Death of the King…
  13. 13Chapter XI — Social State of England
  14. 14Chapter XII — Triumphs of the Commonwealth by Land and Sea — (1649–…
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Fall of Republicans, and Barebone’s Parliament (1651…
  16. 16Chapter XIV — The First Three Years of the Protectorate (1654–1656)
  17. 17Chapter XV — The Last Two Years of the Protectorate — 1656–1658
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Richard Cromwell — Anarchy — The Restoration — 1658–1660
  19. 19Appendix

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