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Oct 25, 2022 · Clarendon’s friend Falkland was also an enemy to dissimulation (Life, i 92). 20 affections ] controlling emotions, passions ( OED 1b). 21 uningenuity ] dissimulation, lack of honesty.
Lord Clarendon thus describes the death of his friend, Lucius Cary, second Lord Falkland, at the first battle of Newbury in 1643. It is not surprising that Clarendon should single out Falkland’s death with such profound feeling from all the miseries of the time since he and Falkland had been very close friends for many years. It is ...
The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon and former advisor to Charles I and Charles II, is his account of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Originally published between 1702 and 1704 as The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, it was the first detailed account from a key player in the events it covered.
I982 CLARENDON'S HISTORY OF THE REBELLION 85. sheriff, only to be rebuked and end up not in retirement, as Clarendon claims, but assigned the tedious task of catching deserters from Goring's army.1 This treatment was particularly shameful as Grenville was an unusually conscientious soldier.
Yet the account in the History of the death of Hyde's beloved friend Lord Falkland, from wounds sustained on horseback at the battle of Newbury in 1643, makes its own claim to symbolic import as it summons the waste and destruction of ‘this odious and accursed civil war’. 12 Other literary associations, which remind us that Hyde's youth had been steeped in poetry and the discussion of it ...
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 ...
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A leading actor in the civil war, Clarendon in his History offered an interpretation of the causes of the conflict which has been much debated by later historians, as Christopher Hill discusses here. The events of 1640-60 are usually described in our text-books as “the Puritan Revolution.”. This phrase, however, originated two centuries ...
