The First Civil War (1642-46)
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- The First Civil War (1642-46)
- Choosing Sides
- Societal and economic positions - aristocracy mainly supp King. Middling to P.
- Geography - R = North, SW and Wales P= midlands, SE, Hull Plymouth and Pembroke
- Religion - Puritans to P. R = Catholics/ Anglicans
- Neutralism and Localism - and clubmen associations
- Strengths and Weaknesses
- Parliament - London - trained bands (20,000 men by 1643), people and wealth, loans from merchants, centre of trade so more access to stuff and printing for propaganda, taxation and ports, control of P - legitimacy, control of S and E which had best agri and money
- BUT early stages - poor unity w Earl of Essex, divisions over strategy that Pym had to quell, originally no effec means of taxation
- King - unity, leadership (Rupert), money (donations from nobility and sale of Crown lands), resources
- BUT unable to secure help from abroad - troops from H made lil impact, Irish confed help easily defeated, main supplies far away in SW, money from trad levies soon ran out not until 1644 when C emulated P in instituting an excise tax
- Parliament - London - trained bands (20,000 men by 1643), people and wealth, loans from merchants, centre of trade so more access to stuff and printing for propaganda, taxation and ports, control of P - legitimacy, control of S and E which had best agri and money
- Events
- King failed to secure a swift victory, poor leadership, Scottish Alliance with Parl (SLAC in 1643)-20,000 mean into England in 1644 - crucial in B of MM - securing P control of North
- ROLE OF PYM - introd excise tax and asses. tax and brought in subs amount of money, Pym satis confl. War & Peace parties but this was much more pron, after P's death in '43, arranged SLAC
- Batt of Edgehill 1st maj batt - inconc,
- NMA - godly discipline, meritocracy, paid, fed, equipped, self D Ord meant leadership improved - Eastern Association - won Naseby!!!
- King failed to secure a swift victory, poor leadership, Scottish Alliance with Parl (SLAC in 1643)-20,000 mean into England in 1644 - crucial in B of MM - securing P control of North
- Why Parliament Won
- King's actions - didn't march to London in 1643, chose to fight at Naseby, London didn't fall victim to royalist takeover. Charles also doesn't take Treaty of Uxbridge seriously.
- Radicalism
- Religious - Puritanism, religious freedom!!!! Developed in NMA.
- Political - want more than a conservative settlement with the King, especially after his royal docs found -Irish army!!
- Choosing Sides
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