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29. Sir Isaac Newton, arguably the greatest experimenter in English history.
30. Charles II in his role as patron of the Royal Society.
31. The members of the ‘Cabal’, a group of five self-interested councillors who ran a corrupt coalition around Charles II.
32. The duke of Monmouth, the illegitimate son who yearned to be king.
33. The duke of York, soon to become James II, with his wife and daughters.
34. A confused scene supposedly depicting the covert arrival of an infant, ‘the warming-pan baby’, to be passed off as James II’s son.
35. The baby grows into James Francis Edward Stuart, better known to posterity as the ‘Old Pretender’ or the ‘King Over the Water’.
36. James II throwing the great seal into the Thames as he escapes from England into France.
Further reading
This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it represents a selection of those books the author found most useful in the preparation of this third volume.
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G. E. Aylmer:
The Struggle for the Constitution
(London, 1963).
J. C. D. Clark:
Revolution and Rebellion
(Cambridge, 1986).
Thomas Cogswell, Richard Cust and Peter Lake (eds):
Politics, Religion and Popularity
(Cambridge, 2002).
Richard Cust and Ann Hughes (eds):
Conflict in Early Stuart England
(London, 1989).
Godfrey Davies:
The Early Stuarts
(Oxford, 1959).
Kenneth Fincham (ed.):
The Early Stuart Church
(London, 1993).
S. R. Gardiner:
History of England, 1603–1642
. In ten volumes (London, 1899).
William Haller:
The Rise of Puritanism
(New York, 1938).
Christopher Hill:
Puritanism and Revolution
(London, 1958).
Derek Hirst:
Authority and Conflict
(London, 1986).
Ronald Hutton:
Debates in Stuart History
(London, 2004).
J. P. Kenyon:
The Stuart Constitution
(Cambridge, 1966).
Peter Lake:
Anglicans and Puritans?
(London, 1988).
Peter Lake and Steven Pincus (eds):
The Politics of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England
(Manchester, 2007).
John Lingard and Hilaire Belloc:
The History of England
. Volumes seven to ten (New York, 1912).
Judith Maltby:
Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
(Cambridge, 1998).
Brian Manning:
The English People and the English Revolution
(London, 1976).
John Morgan:
Godly Learning
(Cambridge, 1986).
John Morrill, Paul Slack and Daniel Woolf (eds):
Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth Century England
(Oxford, 1993).
J. F. H. New:
Anglican and Puritan
(London, 1964).
Linda Levy Peck:
Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England
(London, 1990).
H. S. Reinmuth Jnr. (ed.):
Early Stuart Studies
(Minneapolis, 1970).
Conrad Russell:
Parliament and English Politics, 1621–1629
(Oxford, 1979).
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Unrevolutionary England
(London, 1990).
Kevin Sharpe,
Politics and Ideas in Early Stuart England
(London, 1989).
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Image Wars
(New Haven, 2010).
——— (ed.):
Faction and Parliament
(London, 1978).
Kevin Sharpe and Peter Lake:
Culture and Politics in Early Stuart England
(London, 1994).
Alan Smith:
The Emergence of a Nation State
(London, 1984).
J. P. Sommerville:
Politics and Ideology in England, 1603–1640
(London, 1986).
David Starkey (ed.):
The English Court
(London, 1987).
Margot Todd (ed.):
Reformation to Revolution
(London, 1995).
Howard Tomlinson (ed.):
Before the English Civil War
(London, 1983).
Hugh Trevor-Roper:
Historical Essays
(London, 1957).
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Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans
(London, 1987).
Nicholas Tyacke:
Anti-Calvinists
(Oxford, 1987).
——— (ed.)
The English Revolution
(Manchester, 2007).
David Underdown:
Revel, Riot and Rebellion
(Oxford, 1985).
J. Dover Wilson (ed.):
Seventeenth Century Studies
(Oxford, 1938).
Andy Wood:
Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England
(London, 2002).
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Robert Ashton:
James by his Contemporaries
(London, 1969).
Bryan Bevan:
King James
(London, 1990).
Caroline Bingham:
James of England
(London, 1981).
Thomas Birch:
The Court and Times of James
. In two volumes (London, 1848).
Glenn Burgess:
Absolute Monarchy
(London, 1996).
Irene Carrier:
James
(Cambridge, 1998).
Thomas Cogswell:
The Blessed Revolution
(Cambridge, 1989).
James Doelman:
King James and the Religious Culture of England
(Cambridge, 2000).
Kenneth Fincham:
Prelate as Pastor
(Oxford, 1990).
Antonia Fraser:
King James
(London, 1974).