The English Civil War and Revolution by Keith Lindley

Author:Keith Lindley [Lindley, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General
ISBN: 9781136223877
Google: 1fT9AQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05T01:20:43+00:00

Figure 8 One of the subversive pamphlets reported by the Stationers’ Company in March 1641

There was one Wells and Buckley being sent for by the committee refused to come, and they desire that they may be sent for by order of this House.

Clarendon’s History on the collapse of controls over press and pulpit

The mass media of the period were the printing press and the pulpit which prior to 1640 had been subjected to theoretically stringent controls. Looking back on events, the moderate royalist and great contemporary historian of the period Edward Hyde (1609–74), who was created first earl of Clarendon after the Restoration, attached considerable importance to the collapse of these controls in creating the circumstances that eventually led to war. Prompt action taken by the senior authorities at the time, he believed, would have averted the conflict.

Source: E. Hyde, earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, ed. W. D. Macray, 6 vols (Oxford, 1888), i, 269–70.

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