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Каталог "осадных" денег Великого восстания 1642-1649 годов в Великобритании, когда король Карл 1 вел войну с парламентом и Оливером Кромвелем. В книге даны иллюстрации 35 монет, а также карта монетных дворов, где чеканились "осадные деньги".
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Annex
THE OBSIDIONAL MONEY OF THE GREAT REBELLION. 1642-1649.
Bv PHILIP NELSON, M.D.
HE
period of the Civil war, 1642-1649, or as
termed by Clarendon,
"
The Great
Rebellion,"
it
has been
is
a section
history unsurpassed in interest and the accomplishment of great purposes. Throughout this time
of our
national
warfare was carried on with varying results between the party of the King, or the Cavaliers, and the supporters of Parliamentary Reform. From the austerities of their style of dress and habits the intestine
became known as the Puritan party or Roundheads and this struggle, whatever its merits, by overthrowing the feudal system, initiated that liberty and sense of justice, which are among the latter
;
proudest attributes of the English nation to-day. Into the circumstances which led by insensible steps to the outbreak of the civil war, it is not within our province to enquire it is :
here to remark that the questions in dispute between the and Parliament were such, that both parties despairing of any
sufficient
King
settlement
or
compromise,
determined to put the matter to the
arbitrament of the sword and to "
Upon Nottingham,
August
22,
1642,