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Was the English Civil War a War of Religion? The Evidence of Political Propaganda

1998/01/01 by Glenn Burgess · 3 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #American Constitutional Law and Politics #Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

paper · doi:10.2307/3817797

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Abstract

About Easter last, 1644. I did visit in the Prison at Shrewsbury some Prisoners, that had been taken at the Castle of Brampton Bryan, belonging to Sir Robert Harley in Hereford-shire: and questioning them about their taking up of Armes against their Soveraigne, they answered me, that they took up Armes against Antichrist, and Popery; for (said they) 'tisprophesied in the Revelation, that the Whore of Babylon shall be destroyed with fire and sword, and what doe you know, but this is the time of her ruine, and that we are all men that must help to pull her downe.

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