By G. P. Gooch
The essay out of which the current paintings has grown received the Thirlwall Prize in 1897. The layout of this Essay is to serve either for example of English historical past within the 17th century and as a contribution to the historical past of political rules. English political considering from the Reformation to the outlet of the eighteenth century will be divided largely into what might be referred to as the Monarchical and the Democratic; for even one of the extra oligarchic platforms of concept there's a democratic point. the previous has been already accurately portrayed. An try is now for the 1st time made to narrate the tale of the latter.
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For this reason, the people possess the right o f life and death over the king, since violators o f public faith are unworthy to rule. But no more is the rabble to be supreme2: the true majesty of the State is to be looked for in the Orders and the Estates*. During the composition o f the work the author witnessed the execution of the project it suggested. T h e coincidence was so remarkable that Boucher was commonly considered to be joint author with Clément o f the assassination itself4. But whether or not the scheme sprang so directly from his brain, there can be no question that the incident may be traced to the teaching of which he, D ’ Orléans and Lincestre were only the most distin guished exponents.
C . L. 11. 15 2 , 403. 6 115-17. 6 The ‘ processes' o f some Brownists are printed in the Egerton Papers, 166-79, C. S. The tone is decidedly intransigent. 7 D'Ewes* Journals of Elizabeth, 5 17 . Cp. Camden, Annals, 158 3. 44 D em ocratic Id ea s before the Seventeenth Century Fuller consigns Brown to the grave with the pious wish that his opinions had been interred with him1 ; and for the moment it seemed that this was to be the case. In England, except for a little colony o f Independents in Southwark, no organised non conformity remained after the rise of W hitgift; and in 1592, Bacon could w rite4they were, at their height, a very small number of silly and base people, here and there in corners dispersed, and now by the good remedies suppressed and worn out so that there is scarce any news o f them2/ These opinions, however, were too much in accordance with the spirit of the age to escape the most gigantic development.
Afog»*, 1. 15 3 , ed. 1804. Apology; Part 4. 4 ‘ On W ilful Rebellion. Admonition to Parliament, ed. 15 7 2 , unpaged. The Birth o f Presbyterianism 35 homilies and the disuse of excommunication for special censure1. There was, however, no desire to meddle with the office o f the magistrate, nor, indeed, with anything but the admonition and excommunication of the obstinate3. Some justices were desirous to have a quarrel with the Precisians, as they were called, for their conscience ; but the author wished the government might find better subjects3.