The good old cause : the English revolution of 1640-1660 : its causes, course and consequences : extracts from contemporary sources

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The good old cause : the English revolution of 1640-1660 : its causes, course and consequences : extracts from contemporary sources

edited by Christopher Hill and Edmund Dell

Cass, 1969

2nd ed. / revised and with a new introduction by the author

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This book examines the English revolution from 1640-1660, with particualr attenion to the social structure of England at the time.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Social classes before 1640: the landed class
  • feudal sources of revenue
  • landowners in developing bourgeois society
  • sales of land
  • the new gentry
  • merchants
  • the bourgeoisie
  • the new power of money
  • hymn for a merchant
  • a merchant's advice to his son
  • yeomen
  • conflicting standards
  • the lower orders
  • contrasts of wealth and poverty
  • paupers
  • class feeling
  • the peasant tradition. Part 2 Economic life before 1640: depopulation
  • peasant grievances
  • agrarian discontent
  • direct action
  • petition against enclosure
  • London's merchant companies
  • for free trade
  • the clothing industry
  • royal interference with the clothing industry
  • monopolies
  • failure to protect interests of merchants. Part 3 The state machine before 1640: the crown
  • feudal monarchy
  • a royal favourite
  • sale of offices and honours
  • the aristocracy depend on court pickings
  • the star chamber
  • the high commission
  • class privileges spread too wide
  • the law courts
  • in prison
  • justices of the peace
  • class rule
  • whom did the House of Commons represent?
  • danger of military absolutism
  • parliament and crown
  • a revolutionary scene
  • forebodings of conflict
  • the financial situation
  • growing difficulties
  • ship money. Part 4 Church and state before 1640: the doctrines of the Church of England
  • church and state are one
  • religion as an instrument of government
  • what parliamentarians objected to in the church
  • archbishop laud
  • what cavaliers objected to in the puritans
  • what was a puritan?
  • what the cavaliers feared
  • Protestantism and the bourgeoisie
  • the Roman Catholic threat
  • threat to the reformation in Scotland
  • threat to the reformation in Ireland
  • the new philosophy. Part 5 The international situation: an ambassador's observations
  • appeasing international reaction
  • the parliamentary attitude
  • relation of home and foreign policy
  • influence of the Netherlands
  • the Dutch Republic - a model and a rival. Part 6 The storm breaks: the opposition organizes
  • popular pressure on the government
  • the impeachment of Strafford
  • abolition of the star chamber
  • financial control
  • Charles I tries a coup d'etat
  • control of the church
  • the end of government without parliament
  • appeal to the people
  • Charles tries another coup
  • a revolutionary situation
  • preparations for war
  • bourgeoisie and parliament
  • the two sides line up
  • gentry versus freeholders
  • cavaliers and roundheads
  • the class division
  • importance of the city
  • fears of the gentry
  • how to deal with democrats. Part 7 The civil war: causes of civil wars
  • historical analyses
  • contemporary views of the causes of the war
  • parliamentary debate on the causes of the war
  • religion or class interests?
  • the parliamentary army and navy
  • the royalist army
  • parliamentary finance
  • royalist finance
  • effects of war on relations of landlord and tenant
  • social unrest
  • the class struggle
  • administration by parliament
  • anxiety of the aristocracy
  • Scottish army versus democracy
  • Scottish army in English politics
  • Cromwell demands an army that will fight
  • the new model ar

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