3.13 KEY TERMS

• The Book of Common Prayer

• Charles I

• Charles II

• Sir Christopher Wren

• The Civil War

• Dissenters

• Divine right of kings

• Epic convention

• Epic similes

• Frances Bacon

• The Great Plague of London

• The Great Fire of London

• The Gunpowder Plot

• Heroic couplet

• Heroic drama

• Sir Isaac Newton

• James I

• King James Bible

• Leviathan

• Metaphysical conceits

• Metaphysical poetry

• Oliver Cromwell

• Parliament

• Parliamentarians

• Principia

• The Restoration

• Robert Hooke

• The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge

• Royalists

• Scientific spirit

• Social contract

• Sons of Ben

• St Paul’s Cathedral