Cavaliers and Roundheads

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Christopher Hibbert. Cavaliers and Roundheads

Caualiers & Roundheads. Christopher Hibbert

Table of Contents

TABLE OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS

AUTHOR’S NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PROLOGUE

1 THE GATHERING STORM

2 TAKING SIDES

3 TRIAL OF STRENGTH

4 THE SPREAD OF WAR

5 LONDON AND OXFORD

6 FIGHTING IN THE WEST COUNTRY

7 BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER

8 COLONEL CROMWELL’S MEN

9 SWINGS OF FORTUNE

10 ROADS TO MARSTON MOOR

11 FIGHTING LIKE BEASTS

12 THE NEW MODEL ARMY

13 LEICESTER AND NASEBY

14 DEATH THROES

15 OXFORD ABANDONED

16 SOLDIERS AND LEVELLERS

17 THE SECOND CIVIL WAR

18 THE DEATH OF THE KING

EPILOGUE

The Fate of Characters Whose End is Not Recorded in the Text

Some of the Principal Civil War Sites, Buildings, Memorials and Museums in England

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

About the Author. Cavaliers And Roundheads

Praise

By the same author

The English A Social History 1066-1945. Christopher Hibbert

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Charles was at once appalled and indignant. Condemning the ‘undutiful and seditious’ behaviour of the Commons, and referring to its most unruly Members as ‘vipers’, he ordered the arrest of Sir John Eliot who was left to languish in the Tower where, suffering from tuberculosis, he died three years later, his pleas for release denied or ignored.

If few others could share the strength of the King’s feelings against Eliot and his indignation at the behaviour of his supporters in the Commons, there were those, even among the Puritans, who agreed with the diarist Simonds D’Ewes that ‘divers fiery spirits in the House’ had been ‘very faulty’. For D’Ewes himself the day of this fateful clash between King and Parliament in 1629 was the ‘most gloomy, sad, and dismal day for England that [had] happened in five hundred years’.

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