Cavaliers and Roundheads
This social as well as a military history recreates the scenes of civil war in England, between 1642 and 1649.The book is enlivened by character sketches not only of the leading participants (Charles I, Prince Rupert, Oliver Cromwell), but also of the numerous lesser characters, male and female, who took part in the desperate conflict. Families and friends were bitterly divided as men left home to fight for King or Parliament. Castles and towns were besieged and sacked. Houses were plundered, churches desecrated and some 200,000 lives were lost.
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Caualiers & Roundheads
Christopher Hibbert
Table of Contents
AUTHOR’S NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
6 FIGHTING IN THE WEST COUNTRY
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
| 1625 | |
| 27 Mar: | Accession of King Charles I |
| 11 May: | King Charles marries Henrietta Maria, sister of King Louis XIII of France |
| 1628 | |
| 28 May: | Petition of Right elaboratesParliament’s grievances |
| 23 Aug: | Murder of Duke of Buckingham |
| 1629 | |
| 3 Mar: | The King dissolves Parliament |
| 1633 | William Laud appointed Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1635 | John Hampden refuses to pay Ship Money |
| 1639 | |
| 28 May: | The King, leading army against the Scots, arrives in Berwick |
| 1640 | |
| 13 April: | Short Parliament assembles |
| 3 Nov: | Long Parliament summoned |
| 1641 | |
| 12 May: | Earl of Strafford executed |
| 23 Oct: | Rebellion breaks out in Ireland |
| 22 Nov: | Grand Remonstrance details Parliament’s further grievances |
| 1642 | |
| 4 Jan: | King attempts to arrest the Five Members of Parliament |
| 10 Jan: | King leaves Whitehall Long Parliament issues Militia Ordinance |
| 1 June: | The Nineteen Propositions issued by Parliament |
| 22 Aug: | King raises standard at Nottingham |
| 23 Sept: | Prince Rupert’s victory at Powick Bridge |
| 23 Oct: | Battle of Edgehill |
| 12 Nov: | Prince Rupert attacks Brentford |
| 13 Nov: | Defence of Turnham Green |
| 1643 | |
| 19 Jan: | Sir Ralph Hopton’s victory at Braddock Down |
| 2 Mar: | Lord Brooke killed at Lichfield |
| 19 Mar: | Lord Northampton killed at Hopton Heath |
| 30 Mar: | Sir Thomas Fairfax defeated on Seacroft Moor |
| 16 May: | Battle of Stratton |
| 18 June: | John Hampden mortally wounded at Chalgrove Field |
| 30 June: | Battle of Adwalton Moor |
| 5 July: | Sir Bevil Grenville killed at Landsdown |
| 13 July: | Battle of Roundway Down |
| 13 July: | King and Queen reunited at Edgehill |
| 26 July: | Royalists take Bristol |
| 18 Sept: | Rupert and Essex clash at Aldbourne Chase |
| 20 Sept: | First Battle of Newbury |
| 25 Sept: | Solemn League and Covenant signed |
| 10 Oct: | Roundhead cavalry rout Cavaliers at Winceby |
| 1644 | |
| 6 Jan: | Hopton recaptures Arundel |
| 19 Jan: | Scottish army invades England |
| 25 Jan: | Battle of Nantwich |
| 21 Mar: | Prince Rupert occupies Newark |
| 29 Mar: | Battle of Cheriton |
| 29 June: | Battle of Cropredy Bridge |
| 2 July: | Battle of Marston Moor |
| 2 Sept: | Battle of Lostwithiel |
| 27 Oct: | Second Battle of Newbury |
| 1645 | |
| 10 Jan: | Archbishop Laud executed |
| Feb: | Establishment of New Model Army |
| 3 April: | House of Lords passes Self-Denying Ordinance |
| 30 May: | Sack of Leicester |
| 14 June: | Battle of Naseby |
| 10 July: | Battle of Langport |
| 11 Sept: |
