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 Struggle for Constitutional Government 265 Gooch, History of English Democratic Ideas in the Seventeenth Cen- tury, and Figgis, The Theory of the Divine Right of R~ings, are useful summaries of opposing political theories. Firth, Cromwell, 1900 (Heroes of the Nations Series). The most scholarly short life of Cromwell. The lives of Cromwell by Harrison, Morley, and Roosevelt are sympathetic apologies, but are worth reading. Taylor, England under Charles II, 1660-1678, in English History by Contemporary Writers, edited by Professor F. York Powell ; Figgis, English History Illustrated from Original Sources, 1660-iyij (1902), in the series edited by Warner. Two small source books containing a variety of illustrative materials. Hutton, The English Church fro?n the Accession of Charles I to the Death of Anne, 1903. A scholarly work, with useful bibliographies attached to each chapter. For the lives of Pym, Hampden, Laud, Strafford, and other great men of the time, the student should consult the Dictionary of National Biography, which gives extensive bibliographies. The fullest and most judicial account of the first half of the seven- C. Materials teenth century is to be found in the works of the late S. R. Gardiner : for advanced History of England from the Accession of fames I to the Outbreak of the siud y- Civil War, 10 vols., 1900 ; History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649, 4 vols., 1897-1898 ; History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649— i6j6, 3 vols. Ranke, History of England, Principally in the Seventeenth Century, 6 vols., 1S75. Especially valuable for foreign, Scotch, and Irish rela- tions. Volume VI contains a criticism of some important sources and a number of illustrative extracts. Shaw, A History of the English Church during the Civil War and Religious the Commonwealth, 1640-1661, 2 vols., 1900. A sympathetic but schol- history, arly account. Masson, The Life of John Milton, 6 vols., 1858 sqq. The Catholic point of view is fairly represented in Lingard's History of England. Gardiner, Cromwell s Place in History, 1896, and Cromwell, 1901, Cromwellian contain the mature views of the author. Carlyle edited in his inimitable materials, fashion the letters and speeches of Cromwell. New edition by Lomas, with an introduction by Professor Firth, 3 vols., 1904. Stainer, Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, 1644-1658. Critical and exhaustive. „, . Prothero, Statutes and Constitutional Documents, 1559-1625 ; Gar- lections of DINER, Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolutioti, edition of sources.