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FROM THE GREAT REBELLION TO THE FALL OF MARLBOROUGH
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING COLOURED AND REMBRANDT PLATES
CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED LONDON, NEW YORK, TORONTO AND MELBOURNE MCMIX
Condition of Ireland--Roger Moore's Pilgrimage--Negotiations of the Anglo-Irish with Charles--Hugh M'Mahon betrays the Plot--Rising of the Native Irish--Massacre of Protestants--Measures taken by the English Parliament--Return of Charles to London--The Grand Remonstrance--The King's Answer--His Lieutenant of the Tower--Riots in London--Blunder of the Bishops--Attempted Arrest of the Five Members--Charles leaves London--The Queen goes to Holland--Charles at York--His Repulse from Hull--Preparations for War--The Royal Standard Raised--Prince Rupert's Headstrong Folly--Battle of Edge Hill--Charles marches on London--He returns to Oxford--Cromwell in the East--The Queen in Yorkshire--Death of Hampden--Parliamentary Disasters--Battle of Newbury--Death of Lord Falkland--Negotiations with the Scots and Irish--Death of Pym--Royal Parliament at Oxford--Battle of Marston Moor--Disastrous Failure of Essex in Cornwall--Second Battle of Newbury--The Self-denying Ordinance--The New-modelled Army 1
The Assembly at Westminster--Trial and Death of Laud--Negotiations at Uxbridge--Meeting of the Commissioners--Impossibility of a Settlement--Prospect of Help to the King from the Continent--Charles agrees to the demands of the Irish Catholics--Discipline and Spirit of the Parliamentary Army--Campaign of the New-modelled Army--Hunting the King--Battle of Naseby--Fairfax in the West--Exploits of Montrose--Efforts of Charles to join Him--Battle of Kilsyth--Fall of Bristol--Battle of Philiphaugh--Last Efforts of the Royalists--Charles Offers to Treat--Discovery of his Correspondence with Glamorgan--Charles Intrigues with the Scots--Flight from Oxford--Surrender to the Scots at Newark--Consequent Negotiations--Proposals for Peace--Surrender of Charles to Parliament 34
Differences between the Presbyterians and Independents--The King at Holmby--Attempt to Disband the Army--Consequent Petitions to Parliament--The Adjutators--Meeting at Newmarket--Seizure of the King--Advance of the Army on London--Stubbornness of the Presbyterians--The Army Marches through London--Its Proposals to Charles--Their Rejection--The King throws away his best Chances--The Levellers--Cromwell's Efforts on behalf of Charles--Renewed Intrigues of Charles--Flight to Carisbrooke--Attempts to Rescue the King--Charles Treats with the Scots--Consequent Reaction in his Favour--Battle of Preston and Suppression of the Insurrection--Cromwell at Edinburgh--The Prince of Wales in Command of the Fleet--Negotiations at Newport--Growing Impatience of the Army--Petitions for the King's Trial--Charles's Blindness and Duplicity--He is Removed to Hurst Castle--Pride's Purge--Supremacy of the Independents--The Whiggamores--Hugh Peters' Sermon in St. Margaret's, Westminster--Ordinance for the King's Trial--Trial and Execution of Charles I. 59