03324cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000420012624500260016826400510019430000470024533600260029233700260031833800360034450000310038050801720041152019480058353400700253165300620260165300530266365300730271670000560278985600550284585600430290099900190294376676UtSlPG20260610134756.0mcr n260607r20251876utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a16004351  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aDA1 aGardiner, Bertha Meriton,d1846?-192510aKing and commonwealth 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-08-12  aNeil Mercer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"King and commonwealth : A history of Charles I. and the great rebellion" by B. Meriton Cordery and J. Surtees Phillpotts is a historical account written in the late 19th century. It examines the constitutional and religious conflicts that escalated from the late Tudor settlement through James I to the crisis under Charles I, culminating in civil war. The focus is on how monarchic prerogative collided with parliamentary rights, the law courts, and church governance, with figures like Buckingham and measures such as the Petition of Right at the fore.  The opening of the work sets out the English constitutional framework—legislative, executive, and judicial—and shows how English liberties (consent to taxation, jury trial, and due process) coexisted uneasily with royal prerogatives, pliant judges, and arbitrary courts like Star Chamber and High Commission. It contrasts Elizabeth’s cautious use of power with growing religious tensions: Puritans attacking “popish” ceremonies, Presbyterians demanding church government by assemblies, and sectarians pressing for liberty of conscience, while Elizabeth’s Protestant foreign policy (and the Armada’s defeat) keeps popular support. Under James I, the narrative highlights illegal impositions, coercive ecclesiastical procedure, arbitrary imprisonments (including Arabella Stuart), corruption illustrated by the Eliot–Nutt pirate case, the persecution of Puritans, and James’s wavering response to the Thirty Years’ War; Parliament asserts free speech in 1621 only to have its protest erased. The section then turns to Charles I’s accession: Buckingham’s dominance, Parliament’s one-year grant of tonnage and poundage, anger over English ships lent against the Huguenots, the failed Cadiz expedition, and the Commons’ impeachment of Buckingham, which Charles thwarts by arresting managers and dissolving Parliament. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cPhiladelphia: Jos. H. Coates and Co., 1876  aGreat Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660  aGreat Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649  aGreat Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-16601 aPhillpotts, J. Surteesq(James Surtees),d1839-19304 uhttps://archive.org/details/kingcommonwealth00gard40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76676  c117401d117401