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An act prohibiting the proclaiming of any person to be King of England and Ireland or the dominions thereof
Charles I (1625-1649)
Commonwealth & Protectorate Era
The Diary of Isabella, Wife of Sir Roger Twysden of Royden Hall, East Peckham, 1645-1651
The Execution of Charles I, 1649
The full proceedings of the High Court of Iustice against King Charles in Westminster Hall, on Saturday the 20 of January, 1648 together with the Kings Reasons and Speeches and his Deportment on the Scaffold before his Execution
The humble petition of the gentry and commons of the county of Yorke, presented to His Majestie at Yorke, Aprill 22. 1642. and His Majesties message sent to the Parliament Aprill 24. 1642.
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I go from a Corruptible to an Incorruptible Crown
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Presents the last speech by King Charles I of England, given before those attending his execution on January 30, 1649. His defense of his actions as a ruler and accusations against those rebels who took over the government; His claims to be a Christian and a martyr.
Trial of Charles the First, King of England
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before the High Court of Justice: begun Jan. 20, in the 24th year of his reign, and continued to the 27th. To which is prefixed, the Act of the Commons of England, assembled in Parliament, for erecting a High Court of Justice, for the Trial of his Majesty; also the Journal of the said Court, as it was read before the House of Commons. With additions, by J. Nalson, Doctor of the Civil Laws.
VII. Military Memoir of Colonel John Birch, sometime Governor of Hereford in the Civil War between Charles I and the Parliament
Works by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1609-1674) [Online books page]
Works by Oliver Cromwell via HathiTrust

Book Sources: English Civil War

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Acts and ordinances of the interregnum, 1642-1660 by Great Britain
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Collected and ed. by C. H. Firth and R. S. Rait for the Statute law committee.
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Speech by William Laud
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
or, His funerall sermon, :
preacht by himself on the scafolld on Tower-Hill, on Friday the 10. of January, 1644. Upon Hebrews 12.1, 2, also the prayers which he used at the same time and place before his execution.
Articles Exhibited in Parliament against William Archbishop of Canterbury, 1640 by William Laud
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
By the Sword Divided: Eyewitness Accounts of the English Civil Wa by John Eric Adair
Call Number: DA400 .A63 1998
ISBN: 9780750918589
Calendar of the proceedings of the Committee for Advance of Money, 1642-1656 by Mary Anne Everett Green, editor
Call Number: DA25 .E9 1967
Charles I in 1646 by Charles I, King of England
Call Number: DA20 .R91 1st ser., v.63
Letters of King Charles the First to Queen Henrietta Maria ; edited by John Bruce.
Charles I in Captivity, from Contemporary Sources by Gertrude Scott Stevenson, editor
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Collected Works of Jane Cavendish by Alexandra G. Bennett (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781317037859
The Commonwealth of England by Charles Blitzer (editor)
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Documents of the English civil wars, the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1641-1660
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Correspondence of Sir Robert Kerr, first Earl of Ancram, and his Son William, third Earl of Lothian by Robert Kerr
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Court and Times of Charles the First
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
containing a series of historical and confidential letters, including memoirs of the mission in England of the Capuchin friars in the service of Henrietta Maria, and a variety of other particulars not mentioned by our historians / transcribed from the originals in the British Museum, state paper office, and private collections, by Thomas Birch.
Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army: During the Great Civil War by Charles Edward Long, editor
Call Number: DA20 .R91 1st ser., v.74
The Diary of the Rev. Ralph Josselin by Ralph Josselin
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Diplomatic Correspondence of Jean de Montereul and the Brothers de Bellie̲vre by Jean de Montereul
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The English Civil War and Revolution: A Sourcebook by Keith Lindley
Call Number: DA410 .E54 1998
ISBN: 0415174198
The Hamilton Papers by James Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton
Call Number: DA20 .R91 new ser., v.27
being selections from original letters in the possession of His Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, relating to the years 1638-1650
History of his Own Time by Gilbert Burnet
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
with the suppressed passages of the first volume and notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke and speaker Onslow, hitherto unpublished. To which are added the cursory remarks of Swift, and other observations
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
to which is added an historical view of the affairs of Ireland.
By Edward Earl of Clarendon
King Charles, Prince Rupert and the Civil War by Charles Petrie
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781000220179
Letters Between Col. Robert Hammond... Relating to King Charles I by Robert Hammond
Call Number: Online - free - Google Books
Making the News: An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660 by Joad Raymond (Editor)
Call Number: DA400 .M35 1993
ISBN: 0312100930
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson by Lucy Hutchinson
Call Number: DA407.H9 H7 2000
ISBN: 9781842121085
The Quarrel between the Earl of Manchester and Oliver Cromwell
Call Number: DA20 .R91 new ser., v.12
An episode of the English Civil War
Unpublished documents relating thereto, collected by the late John Bruce ; with fragments of a historical preface by Mr. Bruce, annotated and completed by David Masson.
The Several Speeches of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridge, Henry Earl of Holland, and Arthur Lord Capel
Call Number: Oline - free - HathiTrust
upon the scaffold immediately before their execution, on Friday the 9. of March
Signs and Wonders in Britain's Age of Revolution: A Sourcebook by Abigail J. Hartman (Editor); Timothy G. Fehler (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781351031325
Sydney Papers by R.W. Blencowe
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Consisting of a journal of the Earl of Leicester, and original letters of Algernon Sydney
The Trial of Charles I: A Documentary History (ebook) by David Lagomarsino (Editor); Charles T. Wood (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO Ebooks
ISBN: 9780874514995
Publication Date: 1989-11-01
The Trial of Charles I: A Documentary History (print) by David Lagomarsino (Editor); Charles T. Wood (Editor)
Call Number: KD372.C53 T75 1989
ISBN: 0874514991
A true copy of the journal of the High Court of Justice, etc. The trial of Charles the First, King of England, before the High Court of Justice, for high-treason by Charles I (King of England), John NALSON
Call Number: Online - free - Google Books
To which is added, The journal of the High-Court of Justice ... With additions, by J. Nalson
Women Poets of the English Civil War (ebook) by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Editor); Sarah C. E. Ross (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781526125033
Women Poets of the English Civil War (print) by Sarah C. E. Ross (Editor); Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Editor)
Call Number: PR1177 .W638 2018
ISBN: 9780719086243
The Works of King Charles the Martyr by Charles I (King of England), William Fulman, Richard Perrinchief
Call Number: online - free - Google Books
Note: The author is questioned by historians. It has also been attributed to Bishop John Gauden.
with a Collection of Declarations, Treaties, and Other Papers Concerning the Differences Betwixt His Said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament
The Works of Lucy Hutchinson by Lucy Hutchinson
Call Number: PR3517 .H85 2012
ISBN: 9780199247363
Yorkshire Royalist Composition Papers by John William Clay, editor
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

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