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Even in an age of crowded centennial commemorations, Edward Hyde, who was created Earl of Clarendon in 1661, has in one respect a unique claim, at least within English history, to the recognition of posterity. 1 It lies in the combination of his political and his literary stature. He was either the Crown's leading minister, or as leading a minister as any, for sixteen years, from the aftermath ...
Advowson is the process of appointing the parish priest. Traditionally, the local lord did it; the Church reformers think all church elections should be free of lay influence. 2. Churches of the fee of the lord king cannot, unto all time, be given without his assent and concession. 3.
Abstract. It is a healthy corrective to nineteenth-century conceptions of ‘The Puritan Revolution’ 1 to turn to the rich and sonorous pages of Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. For Clarendon, himself a leading actor in the Civil War, believed that ‘Religion was made a Cloak to cover the most impious designs ...
Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion. Clarendon’s great ‘History’ was composed largely in exile and published after his death. Hugh Trevor-Roper discusses how the historian had originally intended this great work to be private political advice to the King. Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon, was the greatest English statesman on the ...
Clarendon is unlike any other great English historian. Like Thucydides he wrote the history of one great convulsion, lasting some twenty years or so, in which he himself had played an important part, and in so doing achieved a masterpiece. Again like Thucydides he wrote it in undeserved exile from the country he had loved and served. Like him ...
The Home of the Clarendons. The title, 'Earl of Clarendon', was first borne in 1661 by Edward Hyde. He was born on February 18th 1608, at Dinton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire. Educated at Oxford, he became a barrister, and in 1640 was elected into Parliament. He objected to the constitutional acts of King Charles I, but remained loyal to the ...
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It is worth noting that despite Blair Worden's belief that there was a kind of Providentialism that was peculiar to the Puritans, and that one “cannot understand Puritan politics without understanding the Puritan belief in Providence,” he also writes “the explanation of the Restoration in the concluding paragraph of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion is ‘Puritan’ in its ...
