The Constitutional Documents Of The Puritan Revolution 1625 1660

Author : Samuel Rawson Gardiner
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ISBN 13 : 9781331078203
Total Pages : 450 pages
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Download or read book The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution: 1625 1660 The documents in this volume are intended to serve either as a basis for the study of the Constitutional History of an important period, or as a companion to the Political History of the time. By far the greater number of them are printed in books which, though commonly to be found in large libraries, are, on account of their size and expense, not readily accessible to students in general. The MS. of the Constitutional Bill of the first Protectorate Parliament, in the handwriting of John Browne, Clerk of the Parliaments, is preserved at Stanford Hall in the possession of Lord Braye, with whoso kind permission the copy used in this volume has been taken. It is possible that a great part of the document might. have been recovered from the entries of clauses and amendments in tho Journals of the House of Commons, but, as far as I know, this is tho only complete copy in existence. The documents in Part I of the present edition have have been added at the suggestion of Professor Prothero, who very generously placed at my disposal the copies he had made with the intention of adding them to his own Statutes and other Constitutional Documents illustrative of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I (Clarendon Press, 1894). Though the Navigation Act of the Commonwealth has no claim to a place amongst Constitutional Documents, it is of sufficient importance to be printed in tho Appendix. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.