Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of (1609–74) English statesman and historian. He began his political career in the Short and Long Parliaments as an opponent of royal authority, but in 1641 he refused to support the Grand Remonstrance, changed sides, and became a trusted adviser of Charles I, and later of Charles II, with whom he shared exile. At the
RESTORATION Charles II made him Lord Chancellor; he helped to carry out the king's conciliatory policies, and his influence reached its peak when his daughter Anne married the heir apparent, James, Duke of York. Clarendon had little sympathy with the so-called Clarendon Code (1661–65), a series of laws aimed at Roman Catholics and dissenters, but he enforced them against the king's wishes. He was popularly blamed for the naval disasters of the second
ANGLO-DUTCH WAR. He fell from power in 1667 and fled to France to avoid impeachment. His
History of the Rebellion (published 1702–04) is a masterly account of the English Civil War, written from a royalist standpoint but with a considerable degree of objectivity.
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; ...wrote an influential history of the Civil War. Edward Hyde, the 1st Earl of Clarendon, damned "Bromwicham" as "a town so generally...Fox was granted a colonel's commission by the Earl of Denbigh. This entitled him to raise a regiment...
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Edward Hyde Clarendon, 1st earl of
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Edward Hyde Clarendon, 1st earl of , 1609-74, English statesman...After the outbreak of the civil war, Hyde was appointed (1643) chancellor of...chancellor and was created earl of Clarendon (1661). Clarendon hoped to achieve...
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Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st earl of
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Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st earl of (1609–74). Constitutionalism...provided the guiding principles of Clarendon's life. In the first session of...him, encouraging his impeachment. Clarendon fled to France, where he completed...
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Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of
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Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of (1609–74) English...apparent, James, Duke of York. Clarendon had little sympathy with the so-called Clarendon Code (1661–65), a series...
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1st Earl of Clarendon
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1st Earl of Clarendon The English statesman and historian Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674), was the first minister of Charles II in exile...
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Edward Hyde
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Edward Hyde see Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st earl of .
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