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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 ...
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 ...
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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The other was Brian Wormald’s highly influential study of Clarendon’s politics and thought, Clarendon: Politics, History and Religion, which sought to temper Clarendon’s reputation as High Church zealot and instigator of the ‘Clarendon code’ by arguing that in the early 1640s he was not in the forefront of the defence of the Church of England, and only became one of its chief ...
