John Morrill
University of Cambridge, Faculty of History Cambridge, Faculty Member
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An assiduous reader of everything published in England or in English in the 1630s would find little evidence of a polity crumbling into civil war. The modern editors of the exhaustive catalogue of all such publications list around 750... more
An assiduous reader of everything published in England or in English in the 1630s would find little evidence of a polity crumbling into civil war. The modern editors of the exhaustive catalogue of all such publications list around 750 titles a year for the decade, and it was ...
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This collection of new essays offers insights into the meaning and impact of the English Civil Wars in their various aspects - military, political, social, religious, cultural and economic. It provides the student and the general reader... more
This collection of new essays offers insights into the meaning and impact of the English Civil Wars in their various aspects - military, political, social, religious, cultural and economic. It provides the student and the general reader with a range of opinions and features such as information and biographical boxes, charts, extracts from original documents and illustrative material drawn largely from contemporary pamphlets and sources. The editor's other books include "Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution".
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Part 1 The Tudor age (1485-1603), John Guy: population changes Henry VII Henry VIII Edward VI Queen Mary Elizabeth I. Part 2 The Stuarts (1603-1688), John Morrill: society and economic life government and law the early Stuarts the civil... more
Part 1 The Tudor age (1485-1603), John Guy: population changes Henry VII Henry VIII Edward VI Queen Mary Elizabeth I. Part 2 The Stuarts (1603-1688), John Morrill: society and economic life government and law the early Stuarts the civil wars commonwealth and protectorate restoration monarchy intellectual and religious life.
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LENGTHY reports survive of speeches by several members of the Long Parliament for 9 November 1640, at the end of the first week of the session. The future royalist militant, George Lord Digby is reported to have begun his address by... more
LENGTHY reports survive of speeches by several members of the Long Parliament for 9 November 1640, at the end of the first week of the session. The future royalist militant, George Lord Digby is reported to have begun his address by saying that:you have received now a solemn account from most of the shires of England of the several Grievances and Oppressions they sustain, and nothing as yet from Dorsetshire: Sir I would not have you think that I serve for a Land of Goshen, and that we live there in sunshine, whilst darkness and plagues overspread the rest of the land The future royalist moderate Sir John Culpepper is reported to have begun: I stand not up with a Petition in my hand, I have it in my mouth, and he enumerated the grievances of his shire beginning with the great increase of papists and the obtruding and countenancing of divers new ceremonies in matters of religion. The future Parliamentarian moderate, Harbottle Grimston, said that these petitions which have been read, t...
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Calamy Revised. Being a revision of Edmund Calamy's Account of the Ministers and others Ejected and Silenced, 1660–2. By A. G. Matthews. Pp. lxxii + 600. Oxford: Clarendon Press, reissued 1988 (first publ. 1934). £55. 0 19 822986 0Walker Revised. Being a revision of John Walker's Sufferings of th...more
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... Nonconformists in the Netherlands. For advice and support I would like to thank Geoffrey Elton, Christopher Hill, Geof-frey Nuttall, Richard Schlatter, Paul Seaver, Leo Solt, Ted Underwood, and Dewey Wallace. My debt is especially ...
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