Contents

• I. Prolegomena to the Comparative History of Revolution in Early Modern Europe
• II. The English Revolution, 1640- 1660
• III. The Social Interpretation of the English Revolution
• IV. The Court and the Country: A Note on Political Terminology in the Earlier Seventeenth Century - - V. Sir Edward Stanhope’s Advice to Thomas Wentworth, Viscount of Wentworth, Concerning the Deputyship of Ireland: An Unpublished Letter of 1631
• VI. Did Strafford Change Sides?
• VII. The Political Beliefs of John Pym to 1629
• VIII. The Authorship of Mans Mortallitie
• IX. Thomas Hobbes’s Departure From England in 1640: An Unpublished Letter
• X. Hobbes on Our Mind
• XI. Hobbe’s Early Philosophical Development
• XII. Clarendon and Hobbes
• XIII. Cudworth and Hobbes on Is and Ought
• XIV. Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Court of Henry VIII: The Courtier’s Ambivalence
• XV. The Historical Significance of Lying and Dissimulation