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"Commonwealthmen," or English radical Whigs, whom historian Caroline Robbins and other scholars have described - found a ready audience for their ideas in a small minority of their fellow Englishmen and in far greater numbers of their countrymen across the Atlantic.
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By far the greater part of the estate of Castlewood had been confiscated, and been parcelled out to Commonwealthmen.
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The side of the house facing the east had escaped the guns of the Cromwellians, whose battery was on the height facing the western court; so that this eastern end bore few marks of demolition, save in the chapel, where the painted windows surviving Edward the Sixth had been broke by the Commonwealthmen.
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The walls were still open in the old house as they had been left by the shot of the Commonwealthmen.
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By far the greater part of the estate of Castlewood had been confiscated, and been parcelled out to Commonwealthmen.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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The walls were still open in the old house as they had been left by the shot of the Commonwealthmen.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Edward the Sixth had been broke by the Commonwealthmen.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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