The English Civil War

A People’s History (Text Only)

Diane Purkiss

• Publisher: HarperPress
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780007150625
• eBook ISBN:
  9780007369119
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

This popular history of the English Civil War tells the story of the bloody conflict between Oliver Cromwell and Charles I from the perspectives of those involved.

The compelling narrative draws on new sources such as letters, memoirs, ballads and plays to bring to life the Roundheads and Cavaliers, the foot soldiers, war widows and witchfinders of one of the most significant turning points in British history, culminating in Oliver Cromwell's triumph and the execution of Charles I.

By blending the political and the personal, Diane Purkiss illuminates both the ideologies behind the English Civil War and the fears of those who fought in it; the men who were destroyed by the conflict and those, such as Oliver Cromwell, who were defined by it.

INDEX

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Abbott, John, 442

Abercrombie, Jeremiah, 303, 305

Aberdeen, 86; battle of (1644), 397

Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 268, 416

Aborigines (Australian), 515

Adwalton Moor, battle of (1643), 208, 296

Ady, Thomas, 377–8

Agreement of the People, An, 458, 486, 488, 490–1, 496–9

A Ha Christmas (pamphlet), 240

Aldberry, Thomas, 173

Aldermaston, 263

‘Alice, Captain’, 514

Alkin, Elizabeth (‘Parliament Joan’), 410–11, 507

American Revolution, 38

Amnion, Major, 302

Anabaptists (sect), 381

Andrewes, Lancelot, 235

Anglican Church: inclination to popery, 9; practices under Laud, 26–8; calendar reformed, 233–4, 238–9; attendance at Christmas, 236; reduced to simplicity, 408

Anne of Denmark, Queen of James 1,11, 31–2, 50, 55, 68

anorexia, 471

Antrim, Randal Macdonnell, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl of, 82

Archer, John, 122

Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess and 8th Earl of: as Covenanter, 82; pursues Montrose, 397; and Scots in Second Civil War, 533, 540; condemns The Engagement, 540

Arminians, 26,100,136

Army Council: formed, 455

Arnold, Richard, 499, 501

artillery, 419

Arundel Castle, 358

Arundel, Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of, 122

Ash, Simeon, 187, 299, 330

Astell, Mary, 119

Astley, Sir Jacob, Baron, 178, 253, 296, 371, 426, 429

Aston, Sir Arthur, 563–4

Aston, John, 146

Aston, Margaret, 198

Atkins, Dr Henry, 11,13

Atkyns, Richard, 222–32, 296, 567

atrocities, 288–98, 336, 398, 400, 418, 430, 535, 546

Aubigny, Katherine d’, Lady, 287, 403

Aubrey, John: records recollections, 2; on school beatings, 18; on Henry Marten, 95; and battle of Edgehill, 183; on Falkland’s death at Newbury, 254–5; on life in Oxford, 270; Anthony à Wood disparages, 278; on Milton’s mother, 306; on Alexander Gill, 308; on Milton at Cambridge, 309; on April Fool’s Day, 521

Audley family, 135

Audley, Captain Lewis, 492

Auldearn, battle of (1645), 398

Axtell, Colonel Daniel, 555

Ayle, Captain Edmund, 96

Bacon, Lloyd, 163

Balfour, Sir William, 363

Ball, Lawrence, 267–8

Ballam (schoolteacher), 150

Ballard, Colonel Thomas, 412

Bampfield, Colonel Joseph, 445–9

Banbury, 293, 369; Cross, 197

Bankes, Anthony, 25

Banqueting House, Whitehall, 247, 339

baptism, 5

Baptists: in New Model Army, 420; meeting places, 433

Barberini, Cardinal Francesco de, 60

Barebone, Praise-God, 565

Barefoot (Dorchester barber), 138

Bartas, Guillaume du, 55

Barthomley, Cheshire: massacre (1643), 288–90, 564

Basing House: siege of, 209, 357, 407; unemployed actors in, 282

Bass, Edward, 570

Bassano family, 528

Bassompierre, Francois de, 58, 63

Bastwick, John, 98, 200, 213, 481–2

Bath, John Grenville, 1st Earl of (and Viscount Lansdowne), 34, 141, 174, 231, 404, 566

Baxter, Richard: on Cromwell’s character, 22; on rebellion in Ulster, 110, 114; on rumoured Catholic plot, 113; justifies Parliamentarianism, 173–4; on iconoclasm, 204; on soldiers and army, 417–18; bullets stopped by pocket Bible, 422; as chaplain in New Model Army, 424, 429; and Whalley’s cavalry, 427; hatred of Independents, 466

Beale, Thomas, 108

Beard, Thomas: The Theater of Gods Judgements, 19

Bedford, Francis Russell, 4th Earl of, 104, 280

Beevers, Thomas, 248

Bennett, Robert, 538

Berkeley Castle, 344

Berkeley, Sir John, 438, 456, 460–1

Berkshire, Bridget, Countess of, 530

Bernard, Richard: A Guide to Grand Jurymen, 383

Berry, Dorothy, 512

Berwick-upon-Tweed, 85, 533, 540

Bethell, Sir Hugh, 331

Bevis of Hampden (drama), 514

Binyon, Laurence, 340

bishops: abolition proposed, 121–2, 130

Bishops’ Wars, 85, 89

Blackheath, 534

Blackwell, John, 202

Blagrave, George, 411

Blake, Colonel Robert, 437–9

Blechly (Brilliana Harley’s servant), 145

Body, William, 159

Bolton, Lancashire, 291, 294, 327–8

Bolton, John, 570

Bolton, William, 295

Bond, Dennis, 102

Book of Sports, 214

books and pamphlets: production increases, 285

bookshops, 409

Bosville, Major, 544

Boswell (Royalist spy), 455

Bowle, John, 422

Brabazon, Wallop, 154

Braddock Down, battle of (1643), 208, 228

Bradshaw, John, 552–6

Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire: Harley: at, 143, 146–7, 149; threatened by Royalists, 153–4, 215; besieged (1643–4), 216–18, 220; razed and not rebuilt, 221–2, 348

Brandford, Clara, Lady, 274

bread, 341–2

Brentford: engagement at (1642), 190–3, 290

Brereton, William, 141, 220

Bridge of Dee, battle of (1639), 86

Bridgewater, John Egerton, 1st Earl of, 102

Bridgewater, Somerset: siege (1645), 422; loses suburbs, 441

Bristol: Parliamentarianism, 209; Royalists capture and plunder, 252, 285; Fanshawes in, 403–4

Browne, Nicholas, 173, 416

Browne, Sir Thomas: Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 442; Religio Medici, 208

Buchanan, George, 13

Buckingham, Catherine, Duchess of, 24’

Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of: rivalry with Charles, 15; assassinated, 16, 48; Prynne on, 30; attends Lucy Hay’s wedding, 54; as supposed lover of Lucy Hay, 62; Henrietta Maria detests, 63; Bevil Grenville opposes, 156; Sir Bernard Grenvill supports, 157; Laud dreams of, 212; given Rubens crucifixion picture, 244; Rubens dislikes, 246; death predicted by Lady Eleanor Davies, 530

Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of, 536

Bullock, John, 411

Bulstrode, Sir William, 100

Bunyan, John: childhood, 10; Pilgrim’s Progress, 300

Burford, 502–3

Burly, Captain Barnabe, 544

Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, 21

Burroughs, Jeremiah, 46—7

Burrow Hill, near Daventry, Northamptonshire, 426

Burrow Hills, Essex, 513

Burt, Jeffrey, 441

Burt, Joan, 441

Burton, Henry: released from prison, 98; and Robert Harley, 146, 150; ears cropped, 200; urges destruction of Cheapside Cross, 213; Lilburne distributes pamphlet, 481–2

Burton, Thomas, 124

Bury St Edmunds, 239

Butler, Colonel, 365

Butler, Samuel, 194; Hudibras, 385

Byron, (Sir) John, 1st Baron, 178, 289, 329, 332, 418

Byron, Sir Nicholas, 253–5, 327

Calvert, Sir George, 244

Calvin, Jean, 145, 149, 400

Calvinism: Laud opposes, 26; doctrines and practices, 100, 144, 146; and Scots

Covenanters, 453

Cambridge: Milton attends university, 308–13; Queen’s College, 480

Camby, Colonel, 334

Cameron clan, 397

‘camp fever’, 414

Campbell clan: Protestantism, 73; Montrose harasses, 397–8

Campion, Edmund, 213, 307

Campion, Thomas, 53

Canterbury: glorycloth burnt, 301

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Maps
• An Epistle to the Gentle Reader
• I The Last Cavalier?
• II The Meek-Eyed Peace
• III Two Women: Anna Trapnel and Lucy Hay
• IV The Bishops’ Wars, the Three Kingdoms, and Montrose
• V Pym against the Papists
• VI Stand Up, Shout Mars
• VII The Valley of Decision
• VIII Bright-Harnessed Angels: Edgehill
• IX Down with Bishops and Bells: Iconoclasm
• X The Death of Dreams
• XI The War over Christmas
• XII The Queen’s Tale: Henrietta Maria
• XIII Newbury Fight
• XIV Two Capitals: Oxford and London
• XV The Bitterness of War
• XVI Two Marriages
• XVII The Power of Heaven: Marston Moor and Cromwell
• XVIII The Cookery Writers’ Tales: General Hunger, Hannah Wolley, Kenelm Digby and the Deer of Corse Lawn
• XIX Twenty Thousand Cornish Boys: The Battle of Lostwithiel
• XX The Nation’s Nightmares
• XXI Th’ Easy Earth That Covers Her: The Children’s Tales
• XXII God with Us! Montrose’s Campaign
• XXIII New Professions: Parliament Joan and Richard Wiseman
• XXIV The World is Turned Upside Down: The New Model Army and Naseby Fight
• XXV Ashes: The Siege of Taunton and the Clubmen
• XXVI The Birds in the Greenwoods are Mated Together: Anne Halkett and the Escape of James II
• XXVII Nor Iron Bars a Cage: The Capture of Charles I
• XXVIII A New Heaven and a New Earth: Anna Trapnel and the Levellers
• XXIX Stand Up Now, Stand Up Now: Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers
• XXX The Second Civil War
• XXXI To Carisbrooke’s Narrow Case: Charles I in Captivity
• XXXII Oh, He is Gone, and Now hath Left Us Here: The Trial and Execution of Charles I
• XXXIII Into Another Mould? The Aftermath
• FURTHER READING
• INDEX
• P.S. Ideas, interviews & features…
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Praise
• By the Same Author
• Copyright
• About the Publisher