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of its periods: But it discovers imagination and sentiment, and pleases us at the same time that we disapprove of it. He is more partial in appearance than in reality: For he seems perpetually anxious to apologize for the king; but his apologies are often well grounded. He is less partial in his relation of facts, than in his account of characters: He was too honest a man to falsify the former; his affections were easily capable, unknown to himself, of disguising the latter. An air of probity and goodness runs through the whole work; as these qualities did in reality embellish the whole life of the author.
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referred to his time as "an age when so many memoirs, narratives, and pieces of history come out as it were on purpose to justify the taking up arms against that king, and to blacken, revile, and ridicule the sacred majesty of an anointed head in distress; and when so much of the sense of religion to
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to be "as faithful an account of facts as any to be found in those times. ... The characters are described in strong if not just colours, but the style is disagreeably pompous". She also added that "the author's conclusions are so much at war with his facts that he is apt to disgust a candid reader
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This age affords great materials for history; but did not produce any accomplished historian. Clarendon, however, will always be esteemed an entertaining writer, even independent of our curiosity to know the facts, which he relates. His style is prolix and redundant, and suffocates us by the length
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Sir B. Bathurst sent me Ld Clarendons history last week, but haveing not quite made an end of ye first part, I did not unpack it, but I shall have that Curiosety now, to See this extraordinary dedication, which I should never have looked for in ye Second part of a book, & me thinks it is very
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against Parliament. Clarendon argued that in so doing, Charles' advisers were destroying the cause for which they were fighting. He denigrates the logic for accepting such compromise by attributing widespread support for
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by attending Church of England service once or twice a year, a practice that persisted in both England and Ireland well into the mid-18th century. In the preface addressed to his niece
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reforms to the church as simple disaffection by a wicked faction. While his descriptions of the participants are often insightful, they can also be heavily biased.
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The second volume was published during the 1702 Tory push for the Occasional Conformity Bill that sought to undermine the Whigs by barring
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is influenced by Clarendon's politics and subtly supports his own views of Royalist strategy. For example, he opposed those Royalists in
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, to which is now Added an Historical View of the Affairs of Ireland
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, To Which is Added an Historical View of the Affairs of Ireland
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between 1646 and 1648, which only recorded events to March 1644. After his banishment, he wrote his autobiographical
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wonderfull that people that dont want sense in some things, should be soe rediculous as to shew theire vanity.
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Flaningam, John (1977). "The Occasional Conformity Controversy: Ideology and Party Politics, 1697-1711".
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considered it an unlawful rebellion against their sovereign; in 1669, diarist and naval civil servant
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The title itself reflects the contemporary dispute over the nature and origins of the war. For
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Clarendon: Selections from The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars and the Life By Himself
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1648–1655. Portrait by Adriaen Hanneman (d. 1671), National Portrait Gallery, London, no 773
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to change a reference to "the late disruption between king and Parliament" to 'rebellion".
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The debate over the Civil War continued into the 18th century, with Tory defences of the
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The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to The Revolution in 1688
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Firth, Charles H. "Clarendon's 'History of the Rebellion,"' Parts 1, II, III,
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Finlayson, Michael G. "Clarendon, Providence, and the Historical Revolution,"
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Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon: The History of the Rebellion; A New Selection
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Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon: The History of the Rebellion. A New Selection
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Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity
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1702–04 account of the English civil war by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Clarendon
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The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian
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claimed "the creed of those gentlemen was in the preface to Clarendon's
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The life of Edward, earl of Clarendon, lord high chancellor of England.
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and in 1739 by John Davys. In 1757, the former Whig Secretary of State
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into it and writing new sections covering events after March 1644.
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in 1698–1699, which led to a spate of Civil War memoirs from the
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God, and of allegiance and duty to the crown is so defaced".
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was sparked by the sensational success of Republican exile
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from office. This allowed individuals to comply with the
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In the preface to the first volume of his father's work,
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England
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Index


Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
circa
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
Charles I
Charles II
Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Parliamentarians
Parliament
Personal Rule
Royalists
Samuel Pepys
Duke of York
Paris
Queen
Charles
Church of England
Covenanters
Puritan
Edmund Ludlow
Whig
John Darby
Tories
Philip Warwick
Thomas Herbert

Mrs Lane
Lord Wilmot
Laurence Hyde
Nonconformists

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