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The main events of Book One are the election of George Warleggan to Parliament, the birth of Morwenna's child, the marriage of Dwight and Caroline Enys, Drake Carne becoming a successful blacksmith, Hugh Armitage's courtship of Demelza, Sam Carne falling in love with Emma Tregirls and Ossie Whitworth taking up a sexual relationship with his 14-year-old sister-in-law Rowella.
Behemoth, full title Behemoth: the history of the causes of the civil wars of England, and of the counsels and artifices by which they were carried on from the year 1640 to the year 1660, also known as The Long Parliament, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes discussing the English Civil War.
The first modern parliaments date back to the Middle Ages. In 1188, Alfonso IX, King of León (in current day Spain) convened the three states in the Cortes of León; UNESCO considers this the first example of modern parliamentarism in the history of Europe, with the presence of the common people through elected representatives.
3 January – the Long Parliament adopts A Directory for the Publique Worship of God throughout the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Together with an Ordinance of Parliament for the taking away of the Book of Common-Prayer, and for Establishing and Observing of this Present Directory throughout the Kingdom of England and the Dominion of Wales, drawn up by a parliamentary ...
Johnson condemned the book as a slight and shallow attempt to solve one of the most difficult of moral problems. Jenyns, a gentle and amiable man in the main, was extremely irritated by his review. He put forth a second edition of his work, prefaced by a vindication, and tried to take vengeance on Johnson after his death by a sarcastic epitaph: [6]
Simon de Montfort's Parliament was an English parliament held from 20 January 1265 until mid-March of the same year, called by Simon de Montfort, a baronial rebel leader. Montfort had seized power in England following his victory over Henry III at the Battle of Lewes during the Second Barons' War , but his grip on the country was under threat.
29 January – Francis Meres, writer (born 1565) 12 March – Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1591) 29 March – Charls Butler, beekeeper and philologist (born 1560) 20 April – Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1593) 24 May – Ferdinando Gorges, colonial entrepreneur (born 1565)
July – William Crabtree, astronomer and mathematician (born 1610) September – Sir Thomas Barrington, 2nd Baronet, Member of Parliament (year of birth unknown) 8 September John Coke, politician (born 1563) Francis Quarles, poet (born 1592) 6 November – Thomas Roe, diplomat (born c. 1581) 28 December – John Bankes, judge (born 1589)