The Struggle for Sovereignty
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TO Geoffrey Elton AND John Kenyon
Contents
SIR EDWARD COKE, Preface, The Second Part of the Reports, London, 1602
[HENRY PARKER], The Case of Shipmony Briefly Discoursed, London, 1640
[CHARLES HERLE], A Fuller Answer to a Treatise Written by Doctor Ferne, London, 1642
ANONYMOUS, Touching the Fundamentall Lawes, or Politique Constitution of This Kingdome, the Kings Negative Voice, and the Power of Parliaments, London, 1643
WILLIAM BALL, Constitutio Liberi Populi. Or, the Rule of a Free-Born People, London, 1646
Uncharted Waters
JOHN GOODWIN, Right and Might Well Mett, London, 1649
ANONYMOUS, The Peoples Right Briefly Asserted, London, 1649
A Declaration of the Parliament of England, Expressing the Grounds of Their Late Proceedings, and of Setling the Present Government in the Way of a Free State, London, 1649
Law and Conscience During the Confusions and Revolutions of Government
[FRANCIS ROUS], The Lawfulnes of Obeying the Present Government, London, 1649
ANONYMOUS, The Grand Case of Conscience Stated, About Submission to the New and Present Power, London, 1649
[GEORGE LAWSON], Conscience Puzzel’d About Subscribing the New Engagement, London, 1650
ISAAC PENINGTON JR., The Right, Liberty and Safety of the People Briefly Asserted, London, 1651
The “After Game”
[SIR ROGER L’ESTRANGE], A Plea for Limited Monarchy, London, 1660
J. M. [JOHN MILTON], The Readie & Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, London, 1660
VOLUME 2
Introduction
Chronology
Of Parliament
SIR HENRY VANE, The Tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., London, 1662
ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, Earl of Shaftesbury, The Earl of Shaftsbury’s Speech, from “Two Speeches,” Amsterdam, 1675
H. S. [HENRY SCOBELL], Power of the Lords and Commons in Parliament, London, 1680
[ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, EARL OF SHAFTESBURY], Two Seasonable Discourses Concerning This Present Parliament, Oxford, 1675
[ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, EARL OF SHAFTESBURY], A Letter from a Person of Quality, to His Friend in the Country, 1675
ANONYMOUS, Vox Populi: Or the Peoples Claim to Their Parliaments Sitting, London, 1681
Parliament and the Succession
[ELKANAH SETTLE], The Character of a Popish Successour, London, 1681
[WILLIAM CAVENDISH, Duke of Devonshire], Reasons for His Majesties Passing the Bill of Exclusion, London, 1681
B. T. [SIR BENJAMIN THOROGOOD], Captain Thorogood His Opinion of the Point of Succession, London, 1679/80
ALGERNON SIDNEY, The Very Copy of a Paper Delivered to the Sheriffs, upon the Scaffold, London, 1683
The King’s Inalienable Prerogative