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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Constitutional States
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Constitutional States
- The Holy Roman Empire
- Poland
- Switzerland
The English Revolution
- WEB British History Online
British History Online is a collection of nearly 1300 volumes of primary and secondary content relating to British and Irish history, and histories of empire and the British world. A Major research resource.
- Tudor Government
- Benefit of Clergy denied to Murderers, 1512 [Was At Hanover, now Internet Archive]
- Queen Elizabeth I of England (b.1533, r. 1558-1603): Selected
Writing and Speeches [At this Site]
- Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity 1 Elizabeth, Cap. 2 (1559) [At Hanover]
- Elizabeth I (b.1533, r. 1558-1603): Against the Spanish
Armada, 1588 [At this Site]
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The English Mercurie: Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada, July 23rd, 1588 [Was At DavidCo, now Internet Archive]
Facsimile of original newspaper report.
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618): The Dutie of a King in His Royal Office, 1599 [Was At UCI, now Internet Archive]
- William Harrison (1534-1593): Description of
Elizabethan England, 1577 (from Holinshed's Chronicles) [At this Site]
- John Knox: The First
Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, 1558 [At SWRB] [Internet Archive version here]
- John Aylmer, Bishop of London: An Harborow for Faithful and True Subjects, 1559 [At this Site]
A response to John Knox by the Bishop of London, a supporter of Elizabeth I.
[See also full text PDF of the Original Edition of 1559]
- The Stuart Challenge
- James I & VI (b.1566, r. 1566 {Scotland), r. {England} 1603 - 1625): A Trew Law of Free Monarchies, excerpts, [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive]
Also includes and address to parliament in 1610.
- James I & VI (b.1566, r. 1566 {Scotland), r. {England} 1603 - 1625): True Law of Free Monarchies, 1598 [At this Site]
- James I & VI (b.1566, r. 1566 {Scotland), r. {England} 1603 - 1625): A Trew Law of Free Monarchies, excerpts, [At Michigan]
- Touching for the
King's Evil (Scrofula) [At BCP]
The service based in the idea that the king could cure by touch.
- The Gunpowder-Plot, 1605
[At Armistead] [Internet Archive version here]
The trial of Guy Fawkes and others - full transcription of the trial of the conspirators
in the Gunpowder-Plot.
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Charles I : Declaration of
Sports [At Hanover]
- Petition of Right,
1628 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- The King and Queenes Entertainement at Richmond. September 12, 1636. (Charles II.) [Was At Oregon, now Internet Archive]
- Civil War and Revolution
- Radicals
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WEB The World Turned Upside Down [Now Internet Archive]
A Major site on the radicals during the English Revolution, with many online texts.
- WEB Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers [Now Internet Archive]
- An Agreement of the People for A firme and present Peace, upon grounds of common-right and freedome, 1647
[Was At The World Turned Upside Down, now Internet Archive]
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Sir William Clarke: The Putney Debates, 1647 [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive]
A debate concerning the "Agreement of the People," a kind of social contract for
the revolutionary English government, written by John Wildman (1623-1693).
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The Bloody Project Or a discovery of the New Designe, in the present War., 1648 [Was At The World Turned Upside Down, now Internet Archive]
An early antiwar tract, written during the second round of the English Civil War.
- Statement of the Levellers, 1649 [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
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Gerrard Winstanley: The True Levellers Standard Advanced [Was At The World Turned Upside Down, now Internet Archive]
- Radical Women During the English Revolution, excerpts [At
this Site]
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Religious Groups
- "Puritans"
- Baptists
- Quakers
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WEB Quaker Writings Homepage [Internet Archive version here]
- WEB Quaker Historical Texts [Now Internet Archive]
- 2ND
Catholic Encyclopedia: Society of
Friends (Quakers) [Factually reliable, but with some biased attitudes.]
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George Fox (1624-98): Autobiography, [At
CCEL][Full Text]
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George Fox (1624-98): Concerning Revelation, Prophecy, Spirit, Measure and the
Rule; and the Sufficiency of the Spirit [At Quaker Writings] [Internet Archive version here]
- George Fox and Other Quakers (attrib): Letter to the Governor of Barbados,1671
[At Quaker Writings] [Internet Archive version here]
- Edward Burrough: The Epistle To The Reader, London the 9. Mo. 1658 an introduction to The Great Mystery of
the Great Whore of Babylon Unfolded by George Fox. [Was At The World Turned Upside Down, now Internet Archive]
A brief history of the early Quaker movement, in an epistle written in 1658 as an
introduction to a book written by George Fox defending the Quaker faith.
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William Penn: A Key, 1692 [Was At
Tract Association, now Internet Archive]
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William Penn: A Letter to the
King of Poland On behalf of the Friends of Dantzic, 1677 [At Quaker Writings] [Internet Archive version here]
- Isaac Penington (1616-1679): The
Light Within [At Quaker Writings] [Internet Archive version here]
- Margaret Fell (1614-1702): Women's Speaking Justified, 1666 or 1667 [Was At Quaker Historical Texts, now Internet Archive]
- John Woolman (1720-1772): Journal, full text, [At this
Site]
Journal of an 18th century English Quaker and his travels among Friends in America.
- Richmond Conference (Quakers): Declaration of Faith, 1887 [At Quaker Info] [Internet Archive version here]
but see another opinion [Internet Archive version here]
- Catholics
- Resistance
- Repression and Recusants
"England judicially murdered more Roman Catholics than any other country in Europe, which puts English pride in national tolerance in an interesting perspective" [Diarmid MacCulloch]
- Maintaining an English Catholic Tradition
In many other Northern European countries (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, parts of German), Catholicism was completely suppressed. Depite heavy state repression a continuous English Catholic tradition was maintained, especially through insitititions establish abroad.
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The Restoration
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The "Glorious" Revolution
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WEB The Glorious Revolution of 1689 [Was At UGA, now Internet Archive]
- WEB London Gazette, 1675-1792,
texts [Was At Rochester, now Internet Archive]
- Wikipedia: Glorious Revolution
- John Eveleyn: Diary, 1666-1689, excerpts [At this Site]
- Toleration Act 1688 [At British History Online] [Internet Archive version here]
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Declaration of Right,
February 1689 [At Hanover]
- English Bill of Rights, 1689, excerpts [At this
Site]
- English Bill of Rights, 1689
[At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- William III of England: Address to Parliament on the French Question, 31 December 1701 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
A very clear presentation of English Protestant identity.
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English Culture in the
17th and 18th Centuries
- WEB Literature of the English Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century [Was At ACCD, now Internet Archive]
Listing of the major British authors, with dates of their works, and links to the works
when online [outdated].
- WEB Renaissance Electronic Texts [At Toronto] [Internet Archive version here]
A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English
Renaissance books and manuscripts,and of plain transcriptions of such works.
- WEB Perseus Collection Renaissance Materials
- John Cleland: Fanny Hill [Was At
Eserver, now Internet Archive][Full Text]
- John Cleland: Fanny Hill [Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Samuel Pepys: The Concise Pepys Diary, in chapter files, [At Bibliomania] [Internet Archive version here]
- 2ND Robert Louis Stevenson: Samuel Pepys, (written 1886) [At this Site]
- The First English Coffee-Houses, c. 1670-1675 [At this
Site]
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James Boswell: Life of Samuel Johnson, full text Project Gutenberg]
- Daniel Defoe (c. 1659-1731): The Complete English Tradesman, 1724 [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive]
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The Netherlands
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Philosophical
Reflections on Constitutional Politics
- John Milton (1608-1674): Areopagitica,1643 [At this
Site]
A defence of freedom of the press.
- WEB John Lock Archive [At Marxists]
- John Locke (1632-1704): Some Thoughts Concerning
Education, 1692 [At this Site]
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John Locke (1632-1704): Letter Concerning Toleration, 1689 [Wiksource][Full Text]
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John Locke (1632-1704): Letter Concerning Toleration, 1689, excerpts [Was At Then again, now Internet Archive]
- John Locke (1632-1704): A Letter Concerning Toleration, 1689, excerpts [At American Revolution]
- John Locke (1632-1704): Two Treatises of Government,
1690, selections, [At this Site]
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John Locke (1632-1704): Concerning Civil
Government, Second Essay [At Constitution.org][Full Text]
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John Locke (1632-1704): Second Treatise on Government [Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
RG Reading Guide
- John Locke (1632-1704): An Essay Concerning the true original, extent, and end of Civil Government, 1689 [At American
Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
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John Locke (1632-1704): Second Treatise on Government, 1689, excerpts [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive]
- John Locke (1632-1704): Of Political or Civil Society, from Second Treatise, Chapter 7 [At Marxists]
- John Locke (1632-1704): Of the Beginning of Political Societies, from Second Treatise, Chapter 8 [At Marxists]
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Voltaire (1694-1778): On English Government,
from Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 [Was At Civnet, now Internet Archive]
- Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters on the English or Lettres
Philosophiques, full text, c. 1778 [At this Site]
Voltaire was responsible for disseminiating many of the ideas of the English scientists and political theoriests among the (very large) French-reading people of Europe.
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Internationalist Ideas
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