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Index
List of Illustrations
Maps
Preface
The Crisis of the Three Kingdoms, 1637–1642
2 Self-Government at the King’s Command
3 Drawing Swords in the King’s Service
4 We Dream Now of a Golden Age
5 Barbarous Catholics and Puritan Populists
6 Paper Combats
7 Raising Forces
War, 1642–1646
9 Military Escalation, Loyalty and Honour
10 The War of the Three Kingdoms
11 Marston Moor
12 A Man Not Famous But Notorious
13 Naseby and the End of the War
14 Winners and Losers
15 Remaking the Local Community
Revolution, 1646–1649
17 Military Defeat and Political Survival
18 The Army, the People and the Scots
19 To Preserve That Which God Hath Manifestly Declared Against
20 The Occasioner, Author, and Continuer of the Said Unnatural, Cruel and Bloody Wars
21 Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Abbreviations
Note on Authorship and Dating of Pamphlets
Note on Dates and Quotations
Notes and References
Bibliography of Secondary Works
Index
1. Charles I leaving Oxford in disguise, April 1646. (Engraving, anon., 1648)
2. English soldiers reported to be embracing their Scottish adversaries rather than fighting them, i
3 and 4. Portraits of Charles I from the 1630s. (Oils, Sir Anthony Van Dyke, 1635, 1636)
5. The Prayer Book disturbances in Edinburgh in 1637. (Engraving, anon., 1648)
6. The Royal Exchange in 1644: a centre of trade, gossip and news. (Engraving, Wenceslaus Hollar)
7. William Laud and Sir Thomas Wentworth (soon to become the Earl of Strafford). (Engraving, William
8. The House of Commons in the Short Parliament. (Engraving, English school, seventeenth century)
9. The attack on Lambeth Palace, May 1640. (Engraving, anon., 1648)
10. English soldiers purging churches on their way north in 1640. (Engraving, anon., 1648)
11. Panoramic view of London in 1647. (Engraving, Wenceslaus Hollar)
12. New Palace Yard and Westminster Hall in 1647. (Engraving, Wenceslaus Hollar)
13. The execution of the Earl of Strafford in 1641. (Engraving, Wenceslaus Hollar, c. 1641)
14. Cheapside Cross, a focal point of civic life. (Engraving, anon., 1809: copy of earlier engraving
15. The dangers of sectarian excess: the Adamites. (Woodcut, anon., 1641)
16. The dressing from a plague sore delivered to John Pym on the floor of the House of Commons. (Eng
17. Wildly exaggerated reports of atrocities against Protestants in Ireland. (Engraving, anon., 1647
18 and 19. John Pym portrayed in the forefront of the battle against Popish conspiracies. (Woodcuts,
20. The triumphant return of Parliament men following the King’s departure from London in January 16
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