| List of illustrations | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| General introduction | p. 1 |
| Traditional society and the civil wars, 1620-1660 | |
| David Calderwood: The Pastor and the Prelate (1628) | p. 17 |
| The judgement of Bate's Case (1606) | p. 17 |
| Sedition at Agen (1635) | p. 19 |
| Instructions for levying the poor rate in the parish of St. Martin, Oxford (1620) | p. 20 |
| Howell's Familiar Letters from Edinburgh and from Dublin (1639) | p. 21 |
| John Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton, London (1625) | p. 24 |
| A letter from the Earl of Strafford to Archbishop Laud (1637) | p. 25 |
| An extract from Abraham van der Doort's catalogue of the collection of Charles I (c. 1639) | p. 27 |
| Nicholas Faret, The Honest Man or the Art to Please in Court (1630) | p. 29 |
| The History of the Life of the Duke of Epernon (c. 1640) | p. 30 |
| Marillac to Richelieu (1630) | p. 32 |
| The speech of Oliver St. John in the ship money case (1637-8) | p. 33 |
| The National Covenant (1638) | p. 35 |
| Irish Catholic and Protestant demands in petitions to Charles I (1644) | p. 38 |
| Abraham de Wicquefort describing the Fronde (1648) | p. 40 |
| The Apology for the Ormee (1651) | p. 42 |
| The Venetian Ambassador on the Origins of the Ormee (1652) | p. 43 |
| The Putney Debates (1647) | p. 43 |
| Bossuet's reflections on the Frondes (1685) | p. 48 |
| Extracts from Clarendon's History of the Rebellion | p. 48 |
| The Report of the Baron de Lanta on his visit to the Court (1657) | p. 50 |
| The Revolt in the Boulonnais (1661-2) | p. 51 |
| The Ordinance for the Union of the Peoples of Scotland and England into one Commonwealth (1654) | p. 55 |
| The Humble Petition and Advice (1657) | p. 57 |
| Parliamentary Diary of Thomas Burton (1659) | p. 58 |
| Louis XIV to his Chancellor (1661) | p. 59 |
| The Declaration of Breda (1660) | p. 60 |
| Society and culture, 1620-1714 | |
| Madame de Maintenon and Saint-Cyr | p. 71 |
| Richelieu on education and the Academies (1630) | p. 74 |
| Marriage Contract between the Parlement and the City of Paris (1649) | p. 75 |
| The Just Defence of John Lilburne (1653) | p. 77 |
| John Milton, Areopagitica (1644) | p. 82 |
| Pierre Bayle, Concerning Obscenities (1699) | p. 84 |
| Mrs Manley, leaders in The Examiner (1712) | p. 87 |
| The Anglican Canons of 1640 | p. 88 |
| Richard Baxter's Account of his Ministry (1647-60) | p. 90 |
| Blaise Pascal: Ninth letter written to a provincial by one of his friends (1656) | p. 93 |
| Bishop Burnet's Account of his Episcopal Responsibilities (1689-1715) | p. 95 |
| A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke (1685) | p. 97 |
| Sexual offences before the ecclesiastical courts at Stratford-upon-Avon (1622) | p. 99 |
| Visitation articles of the Diocese of Hereford (1662) | p. 101 |
| A Magistrate at work in Restoration England (1663-88) | p. 103 |
| Objections to ship money in Kent (1637) | p. 106 |
| Avoidance of the taille at Lyon (1634) | p. 107 |
| A peasant revolt of Saintonge and Angoumois (1636) | p. 108 |
| The duties of the Intendants, Colbert's instructions (1680) | p. 110 |
| The Clubmen of Dorset and Wiltshire (1645) | p. 112 |
| The articles of the Ormee of Bordeaux (1651) | p. 114 |
| Recommendations for sustaining peace of the Highlands (1684) | p. 115 |
| A Charge to Quarter Sessions (1692) | p. 117 |
| Instructions for building houses in the Grande Rue at Richelieu (1633) | p. 120 |
| Extracts from the Register of Passports for Vagrants in Salisbury (1620-38) | p. 121 |
| Regulations for the Hungerford Almshouses at Corsham, Wiltshire (1668) | p. 122 |
| Edict of Louis XIV for the founding of the first Hopital General in Paris (1656 and 1662) | p. 126 |
| An Act Against Conjuration, Witchcraft etc. (1604) | p. 128 |
| Account of the Expenses of Burning a Witch (1649) | p. 129 |
| Statement of Marie Nicaise | p. 131 |
| Several examinations and confessions of witches (1645) | p. 131 |
| The family troubles of William Stout (1691-1709) | p. 133 |
| Bossuet and Beuvelet on marriage and the family | p. 134 |
| Lordelot, On the duties of domestic life (1706) | p. 135 |
| Sir Robert Filmer, In Praise of the Virtuous Wife (n.d.) | p. 139 |
| Parliaments and kings, 1660-1714 | |
| Three Official Letters from Colbert | p. 153 |
| The Exclusion Bill (1680) | p. 163 |
| Proclamation of the Duke of Monmouth on taking the title of king (1685) | p. 165 |
| Scots Act of Security (1704) | p. 166 |
| The Code Paysan, Brittany (1675) | p. 169 |
| Articles of Impeachment against Henry Sacheverell (1710) | p. 171 |
| Colbert's Summary of royal finances (1680) | p. 172 |
| Saint-Simon describes Louis XIV and his court | p. 174 |
| The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) | p. 177 |
| The Test Act (1673) | p. 181 |
| The Declaration for Liberty of Conscience (1687) | p. 184 |
| The Bill of Rights (1689) | p. 186 |
| Scots Acts Anent [in relation to] Peace and War (1703) | p. 191 |
| The Act of Union with Scotland (1706) | p. 191 |
| Two Nu-Pieds poems of 1639 | p. 197 |
| Guez de Balzac: on royal authority (1631) | p. 201 |
| Extracts from de Morgues, writings in defence of the Queen Mother (1631) | p. 203 |
| Speech by Charles I to the Lords and Commons (1626) | p. 204 |
| Sir Robert Filmer, extract from Patriarcha (c. 1640) | p. 205 |
| Mary Astell, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694-7) | p. 206 |
| An Agreement of the People (1647) | p. 207 |
| Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) | p. 209 |
| Extracts from Louis XIV's Memoires | p. 212 |
| Bossuet on the Divine Right of Kings | p. 214 |
| Jean de la Bruyere: Characters (1688) | p. 215 |
| Saint-Simon from his Memoirs on the reign of Louis XIV | p. 218 |
| Pierre Bayle, The Great Contest of Faith and Reason (1686) | p. 222 |
| Fenelon: Letter to Louis XIV (c. 1694) | p. 225 |
| Two contemporary pamphlets | p. 228 |
| John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (1690) | p. 229 |
| Christopher Wren: a letter of 1665 | p. 231 |
| The Fountains at Boughton (1712) | p. 232 |
| D'Avenant's adaptation of Macbeth (an extract from Act II Scene 1) (1674) | p. 233 |
| Dryden on Louis XIV (1692) | p. 234 |
| Addison on the French | p. 234 |
| Wycherley on a foolish francophile (1672) | p. 236 |
| Stage directions by Thomas Shadwell for his production of Shakespeare's The Tempest (c. 1673) | p. 237 |
| Vauban's memorandum on frontier fortifications in Flanders (1678) | p. 238 |
| Proceedings in the English Parliament, 9-12 November (1685) | p. 240 |
| Sir John Bramston's account of the debates of the King's speech (November 1685) | p. 243 |
| Vauban's memorandum concerning privateering (1695) | p. 245 |
| Saint-Simon's frustrations at his failure to be promoted in the army (after 1697) | p. 247 |
| A priest's description of the milice (1711) | p. 248 |
| Soldiers as salt smugglers (1711) | p. 249 |
| Index | p. 251 |
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