Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: experience other than our own
- 1 The shape of the seventeenth century
- Part I England's troubles 1618–89: Political instability
- Part II The English Revolution 1640–89: Radical Imagination
- Part III Restoration 1660–1702: Reconstruction and Statebuilding
- Sources cited
- Index
Part I - England's troubles 1618–89: Political instability
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 December 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: experience other than our own
- 1 The shape of the seventeenth century
- Part I England's troubles 1618–89: Political instability
- Part II The English Revolution 1640–89: Radical Imagination
- Part III Restoration 1660–1702: Reconstruction and Statebuilding
- Sources cited
- Index
Summary
The Causes and Motives of seditions are innovation in religion, taxes, alteration of laws and customs, breaking of privileges, general oppression, advancement of unworthy persons … and whatsoever in offending people joineth and knitteth them together in a common cause … Disputing, excusing, cavilling upon mandates and directions, is a kind of shaking off the yoke, and assay of disobedience … Also, as Machiavel noteth well, when princes, that ought to be common parents, make themselves as a party, and lean to a side, that is, as a boat that is overthrown by uneven weight on one side.
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles- Type
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- England's TroublesSeventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context, pp. 41 - 42Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000