CLXXVIII

WILLIAM STAFFORD'S Compendious or briefe Examination of certayne ordinary Complaints of divers of our countrymen in these our dayes. A.D. 1549, ed. Elizabeth Lamoud. Cambridge, 1893.

Deals with status of trade and agriculture. Important source. Has caused revision of various economic theories.

SECTION 8.

THE STUGGLE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL

GOVERNMENT

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CALENDARS OF STATE PAPERS.

Furnish much valuable information. Have been issued of many of the public documents for the reigns of James I., Charles I., and Charles II., as well as for the period of the Commonwealth. Period of James II. in preparation. The student should keep himself informed regarding late publications of this series.

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KENNET'S Complete History of England; vol. v, Camden's Annals of King James I.; vol. vi, Wilson's History of King James I. Second ed., London, 1719.

A well edited and impartial collection. Covers period from earliest Britain to death of William III. Made up of monographs upon various reigns. Most of the histories included are of considerable value. Those after vol. IV are most useful.

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COURT OF KING JAMES THE FIRST, by Dr. Godfrey Goodman, Bishop of Gloucester; to which are added, Letters illustrative of the personal history of the most distinguished characters in the Court of that monarch and his predecessors, ed. J. S. Brewer. London, 1839.

Written from a royalist standpoint. To be read in connection with works of Puritan authors, and balance struck.

CLXXXII

STATE PAPERS, and Miscellaneous Correspondence of Thomas, Earl of Melrose, ed. for No. XV by John Hope. Edinburgh, 1837.

Covers period 1599-1625.

CLXXXII

LETTERS from George Lord Carew to Sir Thomas Roe, Ambassador to the Count of the Great Mogul, 1615-1617, ed. J. Maclean. No. XXVI. 1860.

General summary and comment of events occurring 1615 to 1617.

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THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION AND CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND, to which is now added an historical view of the affairs of Inland by Edward Earl of Clarendon (1625-1660). Oxford, 1842. See also State Papers collected by Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Commencing from the year MDCXXI. Containing the materials from which his history of the Great Rebellion was composed, and the authorities on which the truth of his relation is founded. Oxford, 1767. See also Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers preserved in the Bodleian Library. 1623-57. Oxford, 1872-76.

Principally devoted to period 1641-1660. Royalist in bias. Important source.

CLXXXV

MEMORIALS AND LETTERS relating to the History of Britain, (A) in the reign of James the First, 2d ed., 1756. (B) in the reign of Charles the First. Published from the originals. The second edition corrected and enlarged by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. Glasgow, 1766.

Anti-royalist. Compare with No. CLXXXI.

CLXXXVI

PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT: Parliamentary Debates. 1610, ed. S. R. Gardiner. No. XXVI, 1862. Proceedings and Debates. 1620-21; in Parliamentary History, vol. V. London, 1763. Notes of Debates. 1621, ed. S. R. Gardiner. No. XXVI. 1870. 1624-26, same ed. No. XXVI. 1879. 1625, same ed. No. XXVI. 1874; 1618-29. Rushworth Collections. London, 1659; Somers Tracts supra; Protests of the Lords. 1624-1874, ed. J. T. Rogers. Oxford, 1875. See also edit. of London, 1767. 1640-53. The History of the Parliament of England which began Nov. 3, 1640; T. May. Oxford, 1854. Notes

of Proceedings in the Long Parliament, temp. Charles I., by Ralph Verney, ed. J. Bruce. No. XXVI. 1845. A Collection of acts and ordinances of General Use, etc., by H. Scobell. London, 1658.

See also No. XXX and No. LXII.

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VERNEY PAPERS: Letters and Papers of The Verney Family down to the end of the year 1639. Printed from the original MSS. in the possession of Sir Harry Verney, Bart., ed. J. Bruce. No. XXVI. 1851.

This volume is one of a number devoted to the period of the Puritan Revolution and published in No. XXVI, the catalogue of which should be consulted.

CLXXXVIII

WALKER'S DISCOURSES: Historical Discourses upon Several Occasions... by Sir Edward Walker. London, 1705.

Mainly valuable for negotiations between Charles I. and Parliament, in 1648, in Isle of Wight.

CLXXXIX

ENGLAND'S RECOVERY: Anglia Rediviva; England's Recovery, being the History of the motions, actions and successes of the army under the immediate conduct of his excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, ed. J. Sprigg. New edit. Oxford, 1854.

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"The acts of Fairfax and his independent army till the reduction of Oxford and the King."

LETTERS OF KING CHARLES THE FIRST to Queen Henrietta Maria, ed. J. Bruce. No. XXVI. 1856.

Written in 1646. Show the double-dealing of the King. (RYMER'S Fœdera: See No. LXVIII A.)

(DUMONT'S Corps Universel Diplomatique du Droit des Gens: See No. LXVIII B.)

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CONSTITUTIONAL DOCUMENTS OF THE PURITAN REVOLUTION (1625-1660), ed. S. R. Gardiner, 2d ed. Oxford, 1899.

For the period covered, the most suitable single-volume collection for university use.

CXCII

BURTON'S CROMWELLIAN DIARY: Diary of Thomas Burton, Esq., Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell from 1656 to 1659; now first published from the original autograph manuscript. With an introduction containing an account of the Parliament of 1654 from the Journal of Guibon Goddard, Esq., M.P., also now first printed, ed. J. T. Rutt. London, 1828.

Valuable for proceedings of the parliament of the Commonwealth.

CXCIII

BURNET'S HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIME: with notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, Speaker Onslow, and Dean Swift, etc. Oxford, 1823. Several

other editions.

CXCIV

1660-1713. Much chaff, some wheat.

KENNET'S REGISTER: A Register and chronicle ecclesiastical and civil: containing matters of fact, Delivered in the words of the most authentick Books, Papers, and Records; Digested in exact Order of Time, with proper Notes and References Towards discovering and connecting the True History of England From the Restauration of King Charles II. Vol. I (only one printed). London, 1728.

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1660-1662. “A valuable collection of materials."

ANGLIÆ NOTITIA or, the Present State of England compleat. Together with Divers Reflections upon the ancient state thereof, by Edw. Chamberlayne. Many editions. First edition London, 1669.

CXCVI

On the institutions, customs and social life of England.

EVELYN'S DIARY: Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn. To which is subjoined The Private Correspondence between King Charles I. and Sir Edward Nicholas, and between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne, ed. from the original MSS. at Wollon by Bray and Wheatley. London, 1879.

1620-1706. “A storehouse of illustration as regards the political, literary and scientific movements of his age."

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PEPYS'S DIARY: The Diary of Samuel Pepys... Transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge by M. Bright, with Lord Braybrooke's Notes, ed. H. B. Wheatley. London, 1893. Several other editions. Wheatley's edition (1893), though the most exhaustive, is not as suitable for students' use as are earlier editions. See Braybrooke's ed., Lond. 1893.

An interesting, though, from an historical point of view, overrated source.

CXCVIII

LUTTRELL'S DIARY: A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714, by Narcissus Luttrell. Printed from MS. in Library of All Souls' College. Oxford, 1857.

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A methodical narration of contemporary events.

ELWOOD'S HISTORY: The History of Thomas Elwood, written by himself, ed. Morley. London, 1886.

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Valuable for information regarding the "Friends" under Charles II. See also Stephen Crisp and his Correspondence, London, 1892; The Penns and Penningtons of the 17th Century.

WHITELOCK'S MEMORIALS: Memorials of the English Affairs (A) from the supposed Expedition of Brute to this Island to the End of the Reign of King James the First, by Sir Bulstrode Whitelock. London, 1709. (B) From the beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First to the Happy Restoration of King Charles the Second, by Bulstrode Whitelock. Oxford, 1853. First complete edition. Lond. 1732. Avoid ed. of 1682.

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(B) is valuable as "containing the public transactions, civil and military, together with the private consultations and secrets of the Cabinet."

THURLOE PAPERS: A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, Esq.; Secretary, First, to the Council of State, and afterwards to the Two Protectors, Oliver and