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... Parlia- ment in the Tudor period was based on a community of real interests . The Parliamentary franchise was very restricted and the House of Commons represented exclusively the landed class and the merchants , whilst the House of ...
... Parlia- ment in the Tudor period was based on a community of real interests . The Parliamentary franchise was very restricted and the House of Commons represented exclusively the landed class and the merchants , whilst the House of ...
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... Parlia- mentary opposition drove him out of the country again in 1667. Of course he wanted to boost the old régime . He is refuted by the contemporary despatches of the Venetian Ambassador . members of the class . The demand for a ...
... Parlia- mentary opposition drove him out of the country again in 1667. Of course he wanted to boost the old régime . He is refuted by the contemporary despatches of the Venetian Ambassador . members of the class . The demand for a ...
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... Parlia- ment were called upon to lay down their commands ( April , 1645 ) . This hit principally the peers ; the abandonment of their traditional right to command the armed forces of the country was in itself a minor social revolution ...
... Parlia- ment were called upon to lay down their commands ( April , 1645 ) . This hit principally the peers ; the abandonment of their traditional right to command the armed forces of the country was in itself a minor social revolution ...
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abolition agricultural artisans attempt became began big bourgeoisie bishops bourgeois bourgeoisie and gentry capital capitalist Cavaliers changes Charles I's Charles II Charles's CHRISTOPHER HILL Church Civil commercial confiscated copyholders countryside Cromwell Cromwell's Crown depend discipline dominated economic England English Revolution estates expansion export feudal fighting foreign policy freedom French Revolution gentlemen Gerrard Winstanley Government Grandees Henry VIII historians House of Commons independent interests Ireland James King labour land landlords landowners leaders Levellers liberties London lords manor mass ment merchants Model Army monarchy monopoly organised Parlia Parliament Parliamentary peasantry peasants Petition of Right petty bourgeoisie prerogative courts Presbyterians profits Puritan rank and file reactionary régime religious rents restored revolutionary royal Royalists ruling class seventeenth century sixteenth century social order society Spain struggle taxes tenants tion to-day towns trade and industry Tudor Tudor period victory wages wanted wealth Winstanley yeomen