Write the name of an important prose piece by Clarendon.
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As an early reformer in the Long Parliament, as an adviser to Charles I and Charles II, as the major architect of the Restoration on the Royalist side, and as Lord Chancellor of England from 1660 to 1667, Clarendon played a crucial role in determining the course of English history during and after the tumultuous years of the civil wars. As a historian and a literary stylist, he produced the History of the Rebellion, generally regarded as the greatest historical work written in England during the seventeenth century.
The name of an important prose piece by Clarendon is ‘The History of the Rebellion’.
EXPLANATION:
The First Earl of Clarendon- Edward Hyde was a famous English author and historian. His most famous prose piece is ‘The History of the Rebellion’ composed in 1702. Through this prose he gives a first person account of the happenings in the English Civil War.
In this prose he subtly airs his own political views and satirises the policies of the Queen of the Royalist Camp in Paris and how wrongly she had sided with King Charles’ agreement with the Anglican Church. According to Hyde the value and ethics of the Church were degrading and the Church was moving away from its goals.