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100	1		_aGardiner, Bertha Meriton, _d1846?-1925
245	1	0	_aKing and commonwealth
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-08-12
508			_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)
520			_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.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cPhiladelphia: Jos. H. Coates and Co., 1876
653			_aGreat Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660
653			_aGreat Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649
653			_aGreat Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660
700	1		_aPhillpotts, J. Surtees _q(James Surtees), _d1839-1930
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/kingcommonwealth00gard
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76676
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