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King and commonwealth

Chapter 318: Transcriber's Note
By Bertha Meriton Gardiner
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The work surveys constitutional tensions that produced conflict between king and Parliament, outlining early parliamentary crises, a prolonged period of royal personal government, and the convocation of Parliament that provokes impeachment, political fracture, and open rebellion. It follows the civil war through major campaigns and shifting alliances, describes the rise of competing religious and political factions and the army's increasing authority, and recounts the king's trial and execution and the proclamation of a republic. Later sections trace the commonwealth's military and naval efforts, experiments in republican and protectoral rule, social conditions, and the eventual disintegration of republican government leading to restoration.

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Transcriber's Note

1. Obvious printing errors have been corrected. Hyphenation has been made consistent where one of the options is in a clear majority: otherwise hyphenation has been retained as printed.

2. The following further changes have been made:

  • p. 108: "pull them out?" to "pull them out!"
  • p. 125: "bandeleer" to "bandoleer".
  • p. 165: "lieutenant’s-general’s" to "lieutenant-general’s".
  • p. 303 (heading to Chapter XIII.): "Barebones’" to "Barebone’s".
  • p. 391 (after "one that may"): change long dash to em-dash.
  • p. 400 (Index, "France"): 330 to 380.
  • p. 401 (Index, "Mardyke"): 348 to 357.