This book will appeal to readership interested in the seventeenth-century. The extracts range from private diaries and letters to literary works and formal constitutional programmes.
primary sources from the era encompassing the political, religious, and social tumult of the English Civil War. With a focus on Britain in the seventeenth century and covering topics such as astrology, scurrilous pamphlet wars, witch-hunts and trials, and the execution of King Charles I.