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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 9 (February 25, 1927)

A.D. 1603–1688, The Stuarts, The Civil War—The Commonwealth—The Revolution

A.D. 1603–1688, The Stuarts, The Civil War—The Commonwealth—The Revolution.

Then, when these people, strong, prosperous and intelligent, had come to be ripely sufficient for self-government, there fell to them a foolish race of kings who challenged them to a struggle which stripped royalty of all but its fictions and established the sovereignty of England in its House of Commons for all time.