The constitutional documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660 PDF
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___ _ -,--.-'. 7 UC-NRLF Amnmn SB 2T2 ED3 J^ J oTl/.< ru/j/ /'//// //,i (</>n><rjtfu </y>,a/i/tr/iw r THE CONSTITUTIONAL DOCUMENTS OF THE PURITAN REVOLUTION 1625 1660 GARDINER S. R. HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK THE CONSTITUTIONAL DOCUMENTS OF THE PURITAN REVOLUTION 1625 1660 SELECTED AND EDITED SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER, M.A., D.C.L. 8ECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1899 Ojcforb PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY HORACE HART, M.A. PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY MCNRY MOR*5r "TrPNKN8 x-C P REFACE The documents in this volume are intended to serve either as a basis for the study of the Constitutional History of an important period, or as a companion to the Political History of the time. By far the greater number of them are printed in books which, though commonly to be found in large libraries, are, on account of their size and expense, not readily accessible to students in general. The MS. of the Constitutional Bill of the first Protectorate Parliament, in the handwriting of John Browne, Clerk of the Parliaments, is preserved at Stanford Hall in the possession of Lord Braye, with whose kind permission the copyused in this volume has been taken. It is possible that a great part of the document might,barae-been recoveredfrom the entries of clauses and amendments in the Journals ofthe House of Commons,but, asfar as I know,this is theonlycomplete copy in existence. The documents in Part I of the present edition have have been added at the suggestion ofProfessor Prothero, who very generously placed at my disposal the copies he had made with the intention of adding them to his own Statutes and other Constitutional Documents illus- trativeofthe reignsofElizabethandJames/(Clarendon Press, 1894). Though theNavigationActofthe Common- wealth has no claim to a place amongst Constitutional Documents,it is of sufficient importance to be printed in the Appendix. S. R. G. 508034
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