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The English Revolution is a term that has been used to describe two separate events in English history. Prior to the 20th century, it was generally applied to the 1688 Glorious Revolution , when James II was deposed and a constitutional monarchy established under William III and Mary II .
The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to The Revolution in 1688 (1983 ed.). Liberty Fund. Richardson, R.C (1977). The Debate on the English Revolution. Methuen. Seaward, Paul, ed. (2009). Introduction to Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon: The History of the Rebellion; A New Selection. Oxford University Press. Tomalin, Claire ...
Articles relating to the so-called English Revolution in the 17th-century Kingdom of England. Marxist historiography used the term to cover the period of the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period (1642–1660), while seeing the Glorious Revolution of 1688 as part of the same revolutionary movement.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon PC JP (18 February 1609 – 9 December 1674) was an English statesman, lawyer, diplomat and historian who served as chief advisor to Charles I during the First English Civil War, and Lord Chancellor to Charles II from 1660 to 1667.
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, KB, PC (/ ˈ d ɛ v ə ˌ r uː /; 11 January 1591 – 14 September 1646) was an English Parliamentarian and soldier during the first half of the 17th century. With the start of the Civil War in 1642, he became the first Captain-General and Chief Commander of the Parliamentarian army , also known as the ...
Algernon Sidney or Sydney (15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683) was an English politician, republican political theorist and colonel. A member of the middle part of the Long Parliament and commissioner of the trial of King Charles I of England , he opposed the king's execution.
[64] He appears on the pages of seventeenth-century English Puritanism, an age characterized as "the world turned upside down." [65] He was a Puritan and yet was unwilling to surrender conscience to party positions on public policy. Thus, Milton's political thought, driven by competing convictions, a Reformed faith and a Humanist spirit, led to ...