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Title: The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ...
Year: 1796 (1790s)
Authors: Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Publisher: London : Printed for T. Cadell, and sold by T. Cadell jun. and W. Daveis (sic) ... and T. N. Longman ...

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Ona.la^i/eodt/ Fk Loiuloa.Pul>liflia.Ma)r-;^ijfk).W T.CnaoU,Straml. C ^55 1 THE COMMONWEALTH.CHAP. LX. State of Englajid of Scotland of Ireland Levellers fipp^ejfed Siege of Dublin r-aifed . Tredah Jhrmed—— Covenanters Montrofe taken prifoner executed Covenanters Battle of D un bar -—— of Worcejler Kings sjcape T^he commonwealth Dutch war— ■ ■■ Dijfolution of the parliament, THE confufions which oyerfpread England c H A p.after the murder of Charles I. proceeded as LX.well from the fpirit of refinement and innovation, ^^V*^which agitated the ruling party, as from the diflb- st^te oflution of all that authority, both civil and ecclefi- England,aflical, by which the nation had ever been accuf-tomed to be governed.- Every man had framed the v^model of a republic, and however new it was,or fantaflical, he was eager in recommending it tohis fellow-citizens, or even impofmg it by forceupon them. Every man had adjufted a fyftem ofreligion, vv^hich being derived from no tra

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