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Term list – Stuart Britain

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  • Absolutism / Divine Right Monarchy
  • James VI and I (r.1567-25 Scotland; r.1603-25 England)
  • Hampton Court Conference (1604) / King James Bible
  • Puritanism
  • Gun Powder Plot (1605)
  • George Villiers, duke of Buckingham
  • Fiscal Feudalism (monopolies, ship money, wardship, purveyance)
  • Ulster Plantation / Antrim and Down
  • Charles I (r.1625-49)
  • Henrietta Maria
  • Charlestown, Massachusetts
  • Arminianism
  • Thomas Wentworth
  • William Laud – Court of High Commission / Policy of Thorough
  • William Prynne
  • John Coke, John Elliot, John Pym
  • Petition of Right (1628)
  • John Hampden Case
  • Ship Money
  • The Bishops’ Wars (1639-40)
  • Short Parliament / Long Parliament
  • Grand Remonstrance (1641)
  • Triennial Act / Self-Denying Ordinance
  • Cavaliers / Roundheads
  • Solemne League and Covenant (1643)
  • Levellers / Diggers / Quakers
  • Oliver Cromwell
  • New Model Army
  • Battle of Naseby (1645)
  • Army Council Meetings at Newmarket (1647) / Putney Debates (1648)
  • Pride’s Purge / The Rump Parliament / Barebone’s Parliament
  • Drogheda (1649) – the Penal Laws
  • Instrument of Government (1653)
  • Rule by the Major Generals
  • George Monck / The Coldstream Guards
  • Navigation Acts (1651)
  • First Dutch War (1652-54), Second Dutch War (1665-67), Third Dutch War (1672-74)
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost
  • Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
  • Charles II (r.1660-85)
  • Clarendon Code (1660s)
  • Restoration Comedy – John Dryden
  • Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
  • Great Fire (1666)
  • Christopher Wren – St. Pauls Cathedral
  • CABAL
  • (Secret) Treaty of Dover 1670
  • James II (r.1685-88)
  • Test Act (1673) – Exclusion Crisis (1679-81)
  • Green Ribbon Clubs – the Whigs – Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury
  • Declaration of Indulgence (1687)
  • ‘Glorious Revolution of 1688’ – Bill of Rights (1689)
  • John Locke – ‘Two Treatises of Government’ (1689)
  • Siege of Derry (1689) – the Apprentice Boys – the Orange Order
  • Battle of the Boyne (1690)
  • Jacobites – The Great Pretender – the ’15 – the ’45 – Bonnie Prince Charlie – Battle of Culloden (1746)