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Political Speculation

The Supremacy of the Common Law

The Growth of the Conflict

The Church in Politics

The Courts during the Interregnum

Reforms at the Restoration

The Statute of Frauds

The Habeas Corpus Act

The Stop of the Exchequer

Restoration of Church and Prerogative

The Bill of Rights

The Act of Settlement

Revolutions and Political Theory

Thomas Hobbes

John Locks and the Revolution

Much new light has been thrown upon the history of the seventeenth century, and large masses of new documents have become available since Hallam wrote his classical Constitutional History over a century ago.¹