The Interregnum A D 1648 1660

Author : F. A. Inderwick
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331867923
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book The Interregnum (A. D. 1648 1660) written by F. A. Inderwick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Interregnum (A. D. 1648 1660): Studies of the Commonwealth Legislative, Social, and Legal Have I three kingdoms, said King James to the fly, and thou must needs fly into my eye To which the fly might have replied, had he been ready-witted, that His Majesty's eye was as open to him as any other Spot in his royal dominions. The same question, with the same reply, may be put to the writer who, having open to him the whole world of history, archaeology, and romance, wantonly intrudes into the public eye a subject well worn and discussed, and an epoch dark with dulness and disputes. The Interregnum was truly an age of experiment and of transition, but it was also one of the turning points of our national life, and the more fully its details are investigated and published, the more surely will the country appreciate the patriotic devotion and the unselfish aims that underlay the evils and the eccentricities of the time. The more clearly, also, will it realize how the great reforms of the present century had their origin during the few years of the Interregnum, when religion seemed to have gone mad and chaos to have possessed itself of our domestic affairs. For then it was that the sentiments of religious liberty matured with the uninterrupted multiplication of religious sects, that the tree of constitutional freedom was planted in the acknowledged supremacy of Parlia ment, that the principles of a firm and equal administration of justice were expounded in Ordinances and Statutes, and that the scheme of our most recent reforms was enacted in the provisions for 130pular representation. Some of the difficulties of such an investigation are pointed out in the text, but the greatest obstacle is to be encountered in the fact that a complete copy of the Acts. 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.