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1 online resource |
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Introduction : "an industrious mind" -- "A rationall hearer" : 1602-1620 -- "The whole time & minde are filled with law" : 1620-1626 -- "To dippe my pen in teares not inke" : 1626-1631 -- "My dearest dearest" : 1631-1639 -- "The highest stepp of wickednes" : 1631-1639 -- "An Iliad of miseries" : 1639-1640 -- "Stub vp the rootes of all our mischifes" (December, 1640-July, 1642) -- "No end but by the sword." |
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This is the first biography of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, a member of England's Long Parliament, Puritan, historian and antiquarian who lived from 1602-1650. D'Ewes took the Puritan side against the supporters of King Charles I in the English Civil War, and his extensive journal of the Long Parliament, together with his autobiography and correspondence, offer a uniquely comprehensive view of the life of a seventeenth-century English gentleman, his opinions, thoughts and prejudices during this tumultuous time. D'Ewes left the most extensive archive of personal papers of any individual in early modern E |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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D'Ewes, Simonds, Sir, 1602-1650.
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D'Ewes, Simonds, Sir, 1602-1650 fast |
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Great Britain. Parliament -- Biography
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Great Britain. Parliament fast |
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Antiquarians -- England -- Biography
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Puritans -- England -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Antiquarians
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Politics and government
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Puritans
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Abgeordneter
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Antiquar
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056893
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Great Britain -- History -- Early Stuarts, 1603-1649.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056787
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England
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804794282 |
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0804794286 |
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