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17th century in England

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English Civil War

series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists

Wars of the Three Kingdoms

British civil wars, 1639–1651

Petition of Right

English constitutional document, 1628

English Renaissance

cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th century to the early 17th century

Union of the Crowns

personal union of the kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland from 1603

any of a series of English penal laws that served as a religious test for public office

Plantation of Ulster

plantation in Ireland

period in English and Scottish culture corresponding to the reign of James VI and I

Exclusion Crisis

effort to exclude James, Duke of York, from the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland because he was Roman Catholic

I Saw Three Ships

period in British history coinciding with the reign of the House of Stuart

period in English and Scottish history

Anglo-Moroccan alliance

alliance between England and Morocco

Secretary of State for the Northern Department

former cabinet position in Great Britain

Secretary of State for the Southern Department

position in the cabinet of the government of Kingdom of Great Britain up to 1782

Anglo–Ottoman alliance against the Spanish

pirate collaboration against Catholic shipping

English Madrigal School

musical movement in the late 1500s and early 1600s

lead poisoning outbreak in Devon, England

English coffeehouses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

1641 Act by English Parliament

Artists of the Tudor court

painters and limners engaged by the Tudor dynasty between 1485 and 1603

Personal rule of Charles I

Period of Charles I of England's reign