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Constitutional States
The English Revolution
- Tudor Government
- The Stuart Challenge
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James I & VI (b.1566, r. 1566 {Scotland), r. {England} 1603 - 1625): A Trew Law of
Free Monarchies, excerpts, [At Then Again]
Also includes and address to parliament in 1610.
- James I & VI (b.1566, r. 1566 {Scotland), r. {England} 1603 - 1625): True Law of Free Monarchies, 1598 [At this Site]
- Touching for the
King's Evil (Scrofula) [At BCP]
The service based in the idea that the king could cure by touch.
- The Gunpowder-Plot, 1605
[At Armistead]
The trial of Guy Fawkes and others - full transcription of the trial of the conspirators
in the Gunpowder-Plot.
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Charles I : Declaration of
Sports [At Hanover]
- Petition of Right,
1628 [At American Revolution]
- The King and Queenes Entertainement
at Richmond. September 12, 1636. (Charles II.) [At Oregon]
- Civil War and Revolution
- Radicals
-
WEB The World Turned Upside Down
A Major site on the radicals during the English Revolution, with many online texts..
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WEB The Levellers Page
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The Levellers Standard
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An Agreement of the
People for A firme and present Peace, upon grounds of common-right and freedome, 1647
[At The World Turned Upside Down]
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Sir William Clarke: The Putney
Debates, 1647 [At Then Again]
A debate concerning the "Agreement of the People," a kind of social contract for
the revolutionary English government, written by John Wildman (1623-1693).
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The Bloody Project Or a discovery of the New Designe, in the present War., 1648 [At The World
Turned Upside Down]
An early antiwar tract, written during the second round of the English Civil War.
- Statement
of the Levellers, 1649 [At WSU]
-
Gerrard Winstanley: The
True Levellers Standard Advanced [At The World Turned Upside Down]
- Radical Women During the English Revolution, excerpts [At
this Site]
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Religious Groups
- "Puritans"
- Baptists
- Quakers
-
WEBQuaker Writings Homepage
- WEB Quaker Historical Texts
- 2ND
Catholic Encyclopedia: Society of
Friends (Quakers) [Factually reliable, but with some biased attitudes.]
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George Fox (1624-98): Autobiography, [At
CCEL][Full Text]
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George Fox (1624-98): Concerning Revelation, Prophecy, Spirit, Measure and the
Rule; and the Sufficiency of the Spirit [At Quaker Writings]
- George Fox and Other Quakers (attrib): Letter to the Governor of Barbados,1671
[At Quaker Writings]
- Edward Burrough: The
Epistle To The Reader, London the 9. Mo. 1658 an introduction to The Great Mystery of
the Great Whore of Babylon Unfolded by George Fox. [At The World Turned Upside Down]
A brief history of the early Quaker movement, in an epistle written in 1658 as an
introduction to a book written by George Fox defending the Quaker faith.
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William Penn: A Key, 1692 [At
Tract Association.org]
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William Penn: A Letter to the
King of Poland On behalf of the Friends of Dantzic, 1677 [At Quaker Writings]
- Isaac Penington (1616-1679): The
Light Within [At Quaker Writings]
- Margaret Fell (1614-1702): Women's
Speaking Justified, 1666 or 1667 [At Quaker Historical Texts]
- John Woolman (1720-1772): Journal, full text, [At this
Site]
Journal of an 18th century English Quaker and his travels among Friends in America.
- Richmond Conference (Quakers): Declaration
of Faith, 1887 [At Quaker Info]
but see another opinion
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Restoration
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The "Glorious" Revolution
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English Culture in the
17th and 18th Centuries
- WEB Literature of the English
Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century [At ACCD]
Listing of the major British authors, with dates of their works, and links to the works
when online.
- WEB Renaissance Electronic Texts [At Toronto]
A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English
Renaissance books and manuscripts,and of plain transcriptions of such works.
-
Fanny Hill [At
Eserver][Full Text]
- Samuel Pepys: The Concise
Pepys Diary, in chapter files, [At Bibliomania]
- 2ND Robert Louis Stevenson: Samuel Pepys, (written 1886) [At this Site]
- The First English Coffee-Houses, c. 1670-1675 [At this
Site]
-
James Boswell: Life of
Samuel Johnson, full text [At Adelaide]
-
Daniel Defoe (c. 1659-1731): The Complete
English Tradesman, 1724 [At Then Again]
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The Netherlands
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Philosophical
Reflections on Constitutional Politics
- John Milton (1608-1674): Areopagitica,1643 [At this
Site]
A defence of freedom of the press.
- John Locke (1632-1704): Some Thoughts Concerning
Education, 1692 [At this Site]
-
John Locke (1632-1704): A Letter
Concerning Toleration, 1689 [At Chicago][Full Text]
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John Locke (1632-1704): Letter
Concerning Toleration, 1689 [At Constitution.org][Full Text]
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John Locke (1632-1704): Letter
Concerning Toleration, 1689, excerpts [At Then again]
- John Locke (1632-1704): A Letter Concerning
Toleration, 1689, excerpts [At American Revolution]
- John Locke (1632-1704): Two Treatises of Government,
1690, selections, [At this Site]
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John Locke (1632-1704): Concerning Civil
Government, Second Essay [At Constitution.org][Full Text]
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John Locke (1632-1704): Second
Treatise on Government [At Oregon State][Full Text]
RG Reading Guide
- John Locke (1632-1704): An Essay Concerning
the true original, extent, and end of Civil Government, 1689, excerpts [At American
Revolution]
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John Locke (1632-1704): Second
Treatise on Government, 1689, excerpts [At Then Again]
- John Locke (1632-1704): Of Political or Civil
Society, from Second Treatise, Chapter 7 [At Liberty Online]
- John Locke (1632-1704): Of the Beginning of
Political Societies, from Second Treatise, Chapter 8 [At Liberty Online]
-
Voltaire (1694-1778): On English Government,
from Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 [At Civnet]
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Internationalist Ideas
- Hugo Grotius (or Huig de Groot) (1583-1645): The Free Sea, 1609
- Hugo Grotius (or Huig de Groot) (1583-1645): On the Law of War and Peace (De Jure
Belliac Pacis), 1625
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