SOME time before June I682, Thomas Bassett, a Mo asked his students to translate a brief
theme into La that seeks his brother's life to succeed him in his k banished', the theme …

LONDON in the Exclusion Crisis resembled a city besieged. Most inhabitants believed they
were surrounded by malevolent papists who, having failed to devastate the True Protestant …

DURING the winter of 1659-1660, as the restoration of Charles II to the English throne
began to seem ever more probable, a group of London clergymen played a significant rôle …

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OR ENGLISH MISRULE IN THE COLONIES Page 8 LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE …

THE early and mid-Victorian two-party system was to a large extent formed by the great
reforming issues of the I83os. The twoparty alignment which took shape in this decade was …

THE Buckinghamshire election dispute of I604 is probably the most famous election case in
English parliamentary history, and it has produced an extensive commentary. Most recently …

'A mysterious dispute arose in Cumberland between the Earl of Carlisle, lord lieutenant, and
Sir George Fletcher.'So wrote Professor JR Western in 1965 as he speculated that the matter …

The reading of pamphlets in the period 1678-1683 has recently been acknowledged as
having enormous significance for its volatile politics. Joad Raymond claims that'The Popish …

IN October I549, with the nation still reeling from the previous summer's rebellions, the Duke
of Somerset, Lord Protector of England and uncle to the young King Edward VI, was toppled …

The Exclusion Controversy of 1679–81 echoes many of the constitutional issues debated
before and during the Civil War, just as it anticipates many of the arguments used to support …