An epitomy of English history wherein arbitrary government is display'd to the life, in the illegal transactions of the late times under the tyrannick usurpation of Oliver Cromwell; being a paralell to the four years reign of the late King James, whose government was popery, slavery, and arbitrary power, but now happily delivered by the instrumental means of King William & Queen Mary. Illustrated with copper plates. By Tho. May Esq; a late Member of Parliament.
- Title
- An epitomy of English history wherein arbitrary government is display'd to the life, in the illegal transactions of the late times under the tyrannick usurpation of Oliver Cromwell; being a paralell to the four years reign of the late King James, whose government was popery, slavery, and arbitrary power, but now happily delivered by the instrumental means of King William & Queen Mary. Illustrated with copper plates. By Tho. May Esq; a late Member of Parliament.
- Author
- May, Thomas, ca. 1645-1718.
- Publication
- [London] :: Printed for N. Boddington at the Golden Ball in Duck lane,
- 1690.
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- Subject terms
- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800.
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"An epitomy of English history wherein arbitrary government is display'd to the life, in the illegal transactions of the late times under the tyrannick usurpation of Oliver Cromwell; being a paralell to the four years reign of the late King James, whose government was popery, slavery, and arbitrary power, but now happily delivered by the instrumental means of King William & Queen Mary. Illustrated with copper plates. By Tho. May Esq; a late Member of Parliament." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50375.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- illustrations
- THE INTRODUCTION.
- Arbitrary Government, displayed to the Life, in the illegal Transactions of the late Times.
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Ʋpon the late
STORME, and of the DEATHof his HIGNNESS ensuing the same, byMr. Waller. -
Ʋpon the late
STORME, translated out of Mr.Waller's finePiece of FLATTERY. -
ENGLAND Still freshly lamenting the Loss of herKING, with several of her DearestCHILDREN; which have been beheaded, hanged, and shot, byO. CROMWEL, and theLong-Parliament. In a Brief Collection of the remarkable Passages that have happened to this Land, from the year1640, to the year1660. - POSTSCRIPT.