Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Petition of Right
Samuel Rawson Gardiner wrote his story of the passage of the Peti tion of Right some forty years ago. The sources accessible to him were so much more ample, his insight and critical faculty were' so much greater that he has entirely superseded all who wrote before him. Since his day nothing new on this subject has been written. Perhaps one reason is to be found in the fact that the student hardly expects to find out anything new about so important a subject. But an even more probable reason is to be found in the prevalent feeling that Gardiner made the period of the early Stuarts peculiarly his own; that he not only superseded all Who had written before, but that for all time to come those who follow can be only gleaners in his field. Such a conception betrays a misunderstanding of the real intention of Gardiner's work. What he really did was to give a general survey of what may be called, when we consider the great number of important events that are crowded into it, a long period. For most periods such a work has followed, and been based upon, particular studies.
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