SOURCE: "The Rebels of 1642," in The English Civil War and After, 1642-1658, edited by R. H. Parry, University of California Press, 1970, pp. 22-40.
In the following essay, Pennington examines the political issues surrounding the English Revolution, arguing that by the time King Charles I acknowledged the revolutionaries in 1642, a revolution had already taken place within the government: Parliament had already become the ruler of the country.
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