Judgment against John Hampden.

1639. First Bishops' War.

1640. Short Parliament.
1640, Suckling,
Ballad of a Wedding.
Second Bishops' War.
Carew, Poems.
Long Parliament assembled.

1641. Execution of Strafford.
Constitutional

1641, Milton,
Smectymnuus Tracts,
Reforms. Debate
Clarendon begins History of
on Grand Remonstrance.
Civil War.

1642. Committee of Public Safety.
1642, Fuller, Holy
and Profane State.
Battle of Edgehill.
Theaters closed. Browne,
Religio Medici.


1643. Westminster Assembly. Solemn