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- Puritans
- Group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries advocated strict religious discipline in the church.
- Episcopos
- Church government by bishops.
- James I
- King of England (1603–1625) and of Scotland as James VI.
- Charles I
- King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. His power struggles with Parliament resulted in the English Civil War.
- Petition of rights
- A remedy available to subjects to recover property from the Crown.
- Ship money
- A tax once levied on English maritime towns and shires to provide ships for war.
- William Laud
- English prelate who as archbishop of Canterbury (1633–1645) supported Charles I
- Long Parliament
- Session of the English Parliament summoned in November 1640 by Charles I to raise money.
- Triennial Act
- The act requires that the Parliament meet for at least a fifty-day session once every three years.
- New Model Army
- Army that won the English Civil Wars for Parliament.
- Oliver Cromwell
- Led the Parliamentarian victory in the English Civil War (1642–1649) and called for the execution of Charles I.
- Cavaliers
- A supporter of Charles I of England in his struggles against Parliament. Also called Royalist.
- Rump Parliament
- English Parliament immediately following the Long Parliament.
- Levellers
- English Puritan sect active at the time of the English civil war.
- Test Act
- required holders of civil and military offices to profess the established religion
- Charles II
- King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1660–1685) who reigned during the Restoration.
- James II
- The last Stuart king to rule both England and Scotland, he was overthrown by his son-in-law William of Orange.
- Glorious Revolution
- resulted in the deposition of James II and the accession of his daughter Mary II and her husband William III.
- Toleration Act
- granted freedom of worship to Nonconformists
- Thomas Hobbes
- English philosopher and political theorist
- John Locke
- He set out the principles of empiricism
- Mannerism
- An artistic style of the late 16th century characterized by distortion of elements such as scale and perspective.
- El Greco
- Greek-born Spanish painter of religious works.
- Baroque
- A style developed in Europe, England, and the Americas during the 17th and early 18th centuries.
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Italian sculptor, painter, and architect. An outstanding artist of the Italian baroque period.
- French Classicism
- Art style similar to Baroque
- Nicholas Poussin
- French painter whose landscapes and religious paintings are among the greatest examples of the classical style.
- Rembrandt
- Dutch painter whose works are unmatched in their portrayal of subtle human emotions.