E-text prepared by Paul Murray, Lisa Reigel, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original maps and links to images of the original pages. See 24254-h.htm or 24254-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/2/5/24254/24254-h/24254-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/2/5/24254/24254-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Text in italics in the original is surrounded by _underscores_. The index for the entire 8 volume set of _History of the English People_ was located at the end of Volume VIII. For ease in accessibility, it has been removed and produced as a separate volume (https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25533). An additional transcriber's note will be found at the end of the text. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE by JOHN RICHARD GREEN, M.A. Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford VOLUME VI PURITAN ENGLAND, 1642-1660. THE REVOLUTION, 1660-1683 London MacMillan and Co., Ltd. New York: MacMillan & Co. 1896 All rights reserved First Edition 1879; Reprinted 1882, 1886, 1891. Eversley Edition, 1896 CONTENTS BOOK VII PURITAN ENGLAND. 1642-1660 PAGE CHAPTER IX THE CIVIL WAR. 1642-1646 1 CHAPTER X THE ARMY AND THE PARLIAMENT. 1646-1649 43 CHAPTER XI THE COMMONWEALTH. 1649-1653 70 CHAPTER XII THE PROTECTORATE. 1653-1660 92 BOOK VIII THE REVOLUTION. 1660-1760 CHAPTER I THE RESTORATION. 1660-1667 160 CHAPTER II THE POPISH PLOT. 1667-1683 244 MAPS I. MAP OF MARSTON MOOR[vii:1] _Pages 20, 21_ II. MAP OF NASEBY FIGHT[vii:1] _To face page 38_ III. MAP OF EUROPE, WITH FRANCE AS IT WAS UNDER LEWIS XIV. _To face page 293_ FOOTNOTES: [vii:1] By permission of Mr. Markham. CHAPTER IX THE CIVIL WAR 1642-1646 [Sidenote: Edgehill.]