Excerpt from Seventeenth Century Life in the Country Parish: With Special Reference to Local Government This generation has seen the horrors of the Russian Revo lotion and has noted in how many points it resembled the French Revolution. We look back with wonder and a certain admiration at the English Revolution, which was achieved in a very different manner; there was indeed loss of life, for the Puritans struck at the highest in the land, but they put their king to death because - rightly or wrongly - they believed he was the cause of the Civil War; nevertheless, in the puritan revolution in the middle of the century and in the political one towards its close; there is a moderation and restraint - a regard for political considerations which is not found in the same degree in the revolutions of other races. During those years of civil and religious warfare in the Seventeenth Century, though there might be intolerance and harsh administration of the law owing to partisanship, yet there was no indiscriminate plunder, no ruthless slaughter of men and women Without trial, while peace and order were steadily maintained in the country districts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.