Characters and Episodes of the Great Rebellion
Subtitle: Selected from The History and Autobiography of Edward, Earl of Clarendon and Edited, with Short Notes by the Very Rev. G.D. Boyle
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: November 12, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9781402157141
Subjects: Great Rebellion,Great Britain,History,Puritan Revolution,1642-1660,Edward Hyde,Clarendon; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; History / Europe / General
First sentence: THAT posterity may not be deceived, by the prosperous wickedness of these times, into an opinion, that less than a general combination, and universal apostasy in the whole nation from their religion and allegiance, could, in so short a time, have produced such a total and prodigious alteration and confusion over the whole kingdom; and so the memory of those few, who, out of duty and conscience, have opposed and resisted that torrent, which hath overwhelmed them, may lose the recompense due to their virtue; and, having undergone the injuries and reproaches of this, may not find a vindication in a better age; is will not be unuseful (at least to the curiosity if not the conscience of men) to present to the world a full and clear narration of the grounds, circumstances, and artifices of this Rebellion: not only from the time since the flame hath been visible in a civil war, but, looking farther back, from those former passages, accidents, and actions, by which the seedplots were made and framed, from whence these mischiefs have successively grown to the height they are now at.