To the historian no more interesting period can be found than one in which men of virtue and ability strove with one another in seeking the solution of the highest problems at a time when the old chain of precedent had been violently snapped, and when all things seemed possible to the active intelligence.

— Samuel Rawson Gardiner The Fall of the Monarchy of Charles I. 1637–1649 (1882)

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History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1603–1642, Vol. X. 1641–1642 (1884)

History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1603–1642, Vol. X. 1641–1642 (1884)

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