A sect of English fanatics in the days of the Puritans, who
maintained that Jesus Christ was about to come a second time to the
earth, and establish the fifth universal monarchy. The four preceding
monarchies were the Assyrian, the Persian, the Macedonian, and the
Roman. In politics, the Fifth-Monarchy Men were arrant Radicals and
levellers.
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