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The Royalists during the Puritan Revolution pp 39–63Cite as

The Religious Victims of the Long Parliament, 1642–1649

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Two classes of royalists were especially marked for punishment by the Long Parliament. The Anglican clergy and the Roman Catholics were doubly abhorred, for in addition to representing religious doctrines which the puritans had decried since Elizabethan times, both groups were active in supporting the king.

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Hardacre, P.H. (1956). The Religious Victims of the Long Parliament, 1642–1649. In: The Royalists during the Puritan Revolution. International Scholars Forum, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4726-4_3

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