Parliamentary proceedings against a King's minister for failing to carry out his duties in the prescribed manner.

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A Parliamentary Act condemning persons convicted of high treason to loss of property and goods. Rules of evidence are relaxed in an Act of Attainder and often only a general presumption of guilt is re [..]

A soldiers' representative in the New Model Army. The rank and file were the first to elect agitators but the officers followed suit later. When the army's General Council was formed in June [..]

Pertaining to the Church of England, a moderately reformed Protestant church organised along Episcopal lines (i.e. with bishops).

Pertaining to the beliefs of the French theologian and reformer, John Calvin (1509- 1564). Calvin endorsed a Presbyterian model of church government and insisted that the bread and wine of the euchari [..]

A pejorative term applied to Royalists during the Civil War. Derived from the Spanish term 'caballero' (cavalry), Spanish cavalry troops were believed by Protestants to behave in a high hand [..]

The political settlement of the early Republican period (1649- 53)

The term applied to Scottish Protestants who endorsed the 1638 National Covenant which affirmed a determination to defend the Scottish Kirk from Laudian reforms, and who wished to secure an extension [..]

A system of political thought which asserts that monarchs are anointed by God to rule on earth, and that to challenge a sovereign's will is to defy the will of God. The execution of Charles I in [..]