King and Commonwealth

About this eBook

Author

Phillpotts, J. Surtees (James Surtees), 1839-1930

Title

King and commonwealth : A history of Charles I. and the great rebellion

Original Publication

Philadelphia: Jos. H. Coates and Co., 1876.

Credits

Neil Mercer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 76676

Release Date

August 12, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.KING AND COMMONWEALTH
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS.
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.CHAPTER I. — CONSTITUTION— I. LEGISLATURE. — REPRESENTATION IN PARLIAMENT. — CONSTITUTION—II. EXECUTIVE. — SAFEGUARDS—DANGER OF ABUSE. — CONSTITUTION— III. JUDICATURE. — STAR CHAMBER—HIGH COMMISSION. — RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES—REFORMATION. — NO TOLERATION. — RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES—PRESBYTERIANS. — DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS. — RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES—SECTARIANS. — PROTESTANT FOREIGN POLICY. — JAMES I. —ACCESSION. — ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT. — HIGH COMMISSION—FULLER’S CASE. — ARABELLA STUART. — A PIRATE CASE. — PERSECUTION OF PURITANS. — THIRTY YEARS’ WAR. — WAVERING FOREIGN POLICY. — PARLIAMENT OVERRIDDEN. — TOM TELL-TRUTH. — BREACH WITH SPAIN. — DEATH OF JAMES. — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — TONNAGE AND POUNDAGE. — ADJOURNMENT TO OXFORD—DISCONTENT. — FIRST PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED. — WAR WITH SPAIN—FAILURE. — IMPEACHMENT OF BUCKINGHAM. — PRACTICE OF IMPEACHMENT. — WAR WITH FRANCE. — FORCED LOANS. — DEFEAT AT ROCHELLE. — THIRD PARLIAMENT. — PETITION OF RIGHT. — ATTEMPTED EVASION. — MURDER OF BUCKINGHAM. — POLITICAL ASSASSINATION. — FALL OF ROCHELLE. — WENTWORTH THE MINISTER. — ELIOT’S DECLARATION. — ANGRY DISSOLUTION. — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — CHARLES AND WENTWORTH. — COURT AND QUEEN. — DESPERATE FINANCE. — MONOPOLIES. — PRIVILEGE OF PARLIAMENT. — DEATH OF ELIOT. — CHARACTER OF ELIOT. — ILLEGAL COURTS. — WENTWORTH IN ENGLAND. — WENTWORTH IN IRELAND. — IRISH PARLIAMENT. — THIRTY YEARS’ WAR. — SHIP-MONEY. — HAMPDEN—SHIP-MONEY CASE. — FAVOURS TO CATHOLICS. — FEELINGS AGAINST CATHOLICS. — THE PURITANS. — LAUD AS PERSECUTOR. — PRYNNE AND LILBURNE. — PERSECUTION OF PURITANS. — LITURGY FOR SCOTLAND. — THE SCOTCH COVENANT. — PACIFICATION AT BERWICK. — SHORT PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED. — PEERS AT YORK. — LONG PARLIAMENT SUMMONED. — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — MEETING OF LONG PARLIAMENT. — STRAFFORD IMPEACHED. — STRAFFORD AND LAUD IN TOWER. — TRIAL OF STRAFFORD. — LAW OF HIGH TREASON. — TWO MAIN CHARGES. — BILL OF ATTAINDER. — KING PROPOSES A COMPROMISE. — ARMY PLOT REVEALED. — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — AN INDISSOLUBLE PARLIAMENT. — REFORM IN LAW AND CHURCH. — QUESTION OF EPISCOPACY. — ROYALISTS DRAW APART. — IRISH REBELLION. — GRAND REMONSTRANCE. — BISHOPS’ EXCLUSION BILL. — PROTEST OF BISHOPS. — FIVE MEMBERS IMPEACHED. — ATTEMPT ON FIVE MEMBERS. — FATAL RESULTS OF ATTEMPT. — COMMAND OF MILITIA. — KING LEAVES LONDON. — PRELUDE TO WAR. — MEETINGS IN YORKSHIRE. — ESSEX APPOINTED GENERAL. — CHARLES THE DECEIVER. — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — BATTLE OF EDGEHILL. — ARMOUR AND WEAPONS. — ESSEX’ WINGS ROUTED. — DOUBTFUL RESULT. — LONDON THREATENED. — EAST VERSUS WEST. — PEACE PARTY IN LONDON. — DISTRUST OF ESSEX. — DEATH OF HAMPDEN. — ROYALIST TRIUMPHS IN WEST. — LONDON FORTIFIED. — SIEGE OF GLOUCESTER. — RELIEF OF GLOUCESTER. — FIRST BATTLE OF NEWBURY. — DEATH OF FALKLAND. — SUCCESS OF ESSEX. — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — WAR EMBITTERED. — PRESBYTERIAN INTOLERANCE. — NEW POLITICAL REFORMERS. — SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT. — DEATH OF PYM. — ARMY OF INDEPENDENTS. — CHARLES’ IRISH TROOPS. — ARMIES OF KING AND PARLIAMENT. — SIEGE OF OXFORD. — BATTLE OF CROPREDY BRIDGE. — MARSTON MOOR. — POSITION OF FAIRFAX. — POSITION OF ROYALISTS. — ROUT OF FAIRFAX’ WING. — ESSEX IN WEST. — ESSEX’ ARMY SURRENDERS. — MONTROSE IN SCOTLAND. — SECOND BATTLE OF NEWBURY. — CROMWELL VERSUS MANCHESTER. — SELF-DENYING ORDINANCE. — UXBRIDGE NEGOTIATIONS. — EXECUTION OF LAUD. — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — FAIRFAX’ REMODELLED ARMY. — RUPERT STORMS LEICESTER. — FAIRFAX ATTACKS NASEBY. — NASEBY FIELD. — BATTLE OF NASEBY. — KING’S CABINET OPENED. — REDUCTION OF WEST. — DEFEAT OF MONTROSE. — DECLINE OF PRESBYTERIANS. — TREATY OF GLAMORGAN. — CHARLES’ FLIGHT TO SCOTS. — ANGER OF INDEPENDENTS. — NEWCASTLE PROPOSITIONS. — CHARLES REJECTS PROPOSITIONS. — SCOTS SURRENDER CHARLES. — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES. — PRESBYTERIAN INTOLERANCE. — PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ESTABLISHED. — SECTARIANS. — REPUBLICANS. — SIR HENRY VANE. — JOHN MILTON. — LUDLOW—HUTCHINSON. — IRETON—OLIVER CROMWELL. — OLIVER CROMWELL. — JEREMY TAYLOR—CHILLINGWORTH. — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.CHAPTER X. — VOTES AGAINST ARMY. — MUTINY OF ARMY. — ARMY SEIZES CHARLES. — COMMONS AGAINST ARMY. — ARMY PROPOSITIONS. — ARMY PROPOSITIONS—KING’S CHANCE. — PARLIAMENT MOBBED BY PRESBYTERIANS. — ARMY MARCHES ON LONDON. — FLIGHT OF CHARLES. — MUTINY OF LEVELLERS. — CROMWELL SUPPRESSES MUTINY. — CHARLES’ TREATY WITH SCOTS. — CROMWELL FORESEES REACTION. — SCOTCH PARTIES—HAMILTON’S INVASION. — CROMWELL IN SCOTLAND. — PARLIAMENT UNPOPULAR. — TRIAL OF LILBURNE. — FINANCIAL OPPRESSION. — PARTIES IN COMMONS. — NEGOTIATIONS AT NEWPORT. — CHARLES AT HURST CASTLE. — PRIDE’S PURGE. — TRIAL OF THE KING. — EXECUTION OF THE KING. — INSTANCES OF DEPOSITION. — THE FEELINGS OF THE ACTORS. — CAUSES OF SYMPATHY. — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — MONOPOLIES. — MERCANTILE SYSTEM. — TRADING COMPANIES—EAST INDIES. — JEALOUSY OF DUTCH. — DUTCH IN EAST INDIES. — AMERICA COLONIZED. — EXTRAVAGANCE IN DRESS. — ART AND KNOWLEDGE. — THE STAGE AND COURT. — WANT OF HUMANITY. — SUPERSTITIONS. — THE NOBLEMAN. — THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. — THE YEOMAN. — THE LABOURER. — POOR LAWS. — LONDON. — APPRENTICES. — SOCIAL STATE OF SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — THE REPUBLIC—ITS ENEMIES. — EIKON BASILIKE. — MUTINY OF LEVELLERS. — STORMING OF DROGHEDA. — IRISH CAMPAIGN. — REDUCTION OF IRELAND. — PARTIES IN SCOTLAND. — SCOTCH CAMPAIGN. — DUNBAR FIELD. — BATTLE OF DUNBAR. — CHARLES INVADES ENGLAND. — BATTLE OF WORCESTER. — ESCAPE OF CHARLES. — FOREIGN AFFAIRS. — PORTUGAL—FRANCE. — FOREIGN RELATIONS. — HOLLAND. — WAR WITH THE DUTCH. — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — DEATH OF IRETON. — HIGH COURTS OF JUSTICE. — TRIALS AND CONFISCATIONS. — BANISHMENT OF LILBURNE. — SHORTCOMINGS OF REPUBLICANS. — POSITION OF CROMWELL. — POSITION OF PARLIAMENT. — EXPULSION OF LONG PARLIAMENT. — END OF LONG PARLIAMENT. — LAW REFORM. — LAW AND EQUITY. — A REFORMING PARLIAMENT. — ABOLITION OF PATRONAGE. — REFORMS—WISE AND FOOLISH. — FINAL VICTORIES OVER DUTCH. — END OF BAREBONE’S PARLIAMENT. — CROMWELL INAUGURATED LORD PROTECTOR. — BREACH WITH REPUBLICANS. — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. — THE PROTECTOR’S IDEAL. — ENEMIES OF PROTECTORATE. — TEMPORARY DICTATORSHIP. — REFORM IN REPRESENTATION. — CROMWELL’S FIRST PARLIAMENT. — ROYALIST RISINGS. — ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT. — TREATMENT OF CONSPIRATORS. — COMPARATIVE CLEMENCY. — IMPARTIAL JUSTICE. — CRIMINAL CODE. — RELIGIOUS TOLERATION. — UNION WITH SCOTLAND. — SETTLEMENT OF IRELAND. — CROMWELL’S IRISH POLICY. — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. — CROMWELL’S SECOND PARLIAMENT. — SYNDERCOMB’S PLOT. — FOREIGN POLICY. — FRANCE AND SPAIN. — BLAKE AT TENERIFFE. — THE VAUDOIS PROTECTED. — SPANISH WAR JUSTIFIABLE. — NEW HOUSE OF LORDS. — SECOND SESSION—DISSOLUTION. — CONSPIRACIES CRUSHED. — CROMWELL’S LAST ILLNESS. — DEATH OF CROMWELL. — CHARACTER OF CROMWELL. — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. — RICHARD CROMWELL’S PARLIAMENT. — FALL OF RICHARD CROMWELL. — ANARCHY.—THE RUMP AGAIN. — THE RESTORATION. — CAUSES OF REACTION. — THE PURITANS AND EDUCATION. — THE REBELLION—THE REVOLUTION. — FRANCE AND ENGLAND. — FATE OF REGICIDES. — THE RESTORATION—REVENGE. — EXECUTION OF VANE. — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.APPENDIX.
23. 23.INDEX.
24. 24.HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. BY THE COMTE DE PARIS.
25. 25.LECTURES DELIVERED IN AMERICA. BY CHARLES KINGSLEY, LATE CANON OF WESTMINSTER, ETC. Edited by Mrs. Kingsley. 12mo, Toned Paper, Cloth, $1.25.
26. 26.Transcriber's Note

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