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4 unusual facts about English civil war


Blair Worden

Blair Worden is a historian, among the leading authorities on the period of the English Civil War and on relations between literature and history more generally in the early modern period.

King's Standing Bowl Barrow

It is the reputed site from where King Charles I reviewed his troops on October 18, 1642 during the English Civil War; from which event both the mound and the area take their name.

Maria McCann

The story focuses on the relationship of two men, Jacob Cullen and Christopher Ferris, and is set during the English Civil War.

Oxford Cavaliers

The club's original crest was the blue and red royal standard of King Charles I who held court at Christchurch College in the city during the English Civil War.


Acklington Park

Acklington Park in the parish of Warkworth, Northumberland, England was the birthplace of John Rushworth (born c.1612) who achieved fame in both England and during the formation of the United States of America for compiling a series of works called Historical Collections covering the English Civil Wars throughout the 17th century.

Alison Prince

Alison Prince wrote in late 2013 that she was working on a children's book about the second phase of the English Civil War and on a biography of Richard III, whose remains had recently been dug up in a Leicester car park.

Ashover

Ashover was the scene of a confrontation between the Royalists and the Roundheads during the English Civil War in the 17th century.

Bath School of Art and Design

The original School moved to Hetling House, Westgate Buildings, an ancient building which George Newenham Wright in his Historic Guide to Bath (1864) says had been garrisoned for the Royalists in the Civil War, adding that "the School of Design now occupies the principal and older part".

Bovey Tracey

During the English Civil War on 9 January 1646, Oliver Cromwell and a contingent of his Roundhead army entered Bovey Tracey after dark and caught part of Lord Wentworth's Regiment by surprise, catching a number of officers playing cards in an inn.

Brother Jonathan

The term dates at least to the 17th century, when it was applied to Puritan roundheads during the English Civil War.

Castle an Dinas, St Columb Major

In March 1646, during the English Civil War, Sir Ralph Hopton's Royalist troops camped for two nights within the rings of the fort.

Christmas Steps, Bristol

In the 17th century, the Christmas Steps is also believed to have been called Lonsford’s Stairs for a short period, in honour of a Cavalier officer who was killed at the top of the steps during the siege of Bristol in the English Civil War.

Cold Ashton

In 1643 during the English Civil War Sir Bevil Grenville was injured at the Battle of Lansdowne and carried to the rectory at Cold Ashton, where he died.

Commission of array

Although obsolete by the 17th century, the system was revived by Charles I in 1642 (in opposition to the 1641 Militia Ordinance that gave Parliament control of raising troops) in order to muster a Royalist army at the onset of the English Civil War.

Crick, Monmouthshire

In July 1645, during the English Civil War, a mediaeval hall at Crick was the site of a key meeting between King Charles, who had been recently defeated at Langport in Somerset, and his nephew and ally Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

D'Ewes Coke

Coke's own family can be traced back to the 15th century and includes such notable figures as George Coke, a Bishop of Hereford just before the English Civil War, and Sir John Coke, Secretary of State to King Charles I.

D'Oyly baronets

The D'Oyly Baronetcy, of Shottisham in the County of Norfolk, was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 July 1663 for William D'Oyly, a supporter of the Royalist cause in the Civil War and Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth and Norfolk.

Dudmaston Hall

On the outbreak of the English Civil War, he raised troops for the king and was appointed governor of Bridgnorth Castle.

Eleutheran Adventurers

This conflict spread to Bermuda where a period of civil strife resulted in a victory for the supporters of the Royalist party in the English Civil War.

Ellistown and Battleflat

The toponym is said to be derived from a skirmish during the English Civil War.

Geneva Bible

It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower, it was used by many English Dissenters, and it was still respected by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers at the time of the English Civil War in the booklet Cromwell's Soldiers' Pocket Bible.

George Leyburn

Shortly before the English Civil War broke out, he returned to England, and in 1644 he was a prisoner in the Tower of London; there he met George Monck, and foretold that he would be a general in the north, and would eventually command the three kingdoms.

George Seton, Lord Seton

Seton suffered great hardships at the hands of the rebels during the English Civil War, and his father had to sell family estates long held in Linlithgowshire, that of Niddry Castle and one at Winchburgh, to rescue him from imprisonment.

Giovanni Battista Rinuccini

Rinuccini hoped that by doing this he could influence the Confederate's strategic policy away from doing a deal with Charles I and the Royalists in the English Civil War and towards the foundation of an independent Catholic-ruled Ireland.

Great and Little Hampden

Great Hampden is the ancestral home of the Hobart-Hampden family, the most famous of whom was the English Civil War hero John Hampden.

Hampden House

Also in the grounds is the parish church, containing many memorials to the Hampden family including a monument to John Hampden, the celebrated patriot, who died of wounds received at the Battle of Chalgrove during the English Civil War in 1643 fighting for the Parliamentarians.

Hugh Hare, 1st Baron Coleraine

As he was closely associated with the court of Charles I, Coleraine's fortunes went into decline during the English Civil War.

Isle Abbots

In 1645 during the English Civil War Isle Abbots was the scene of a skirmish between parliamentary troops under Edward Massie and Royalist forces under Lord Goring who fought for control of the bridges prior to the Battle of Langport.

John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor

John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor and Viscount Bodmin PC (1606 – 17 July 1685), known as The Lord Robartes (or John, Lord Roberts) between 1634 and 1679, was an English politician, who fought for the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War.

John Seymour Lucas

Inspired by van Dyck and particularly Diego Velázquez, he excelled in depicting scenes from the English 16th- to 18th-century Tudor and Stuart periods, including in particular the Spanish Armada, the English Civil War and the Jacobite rebellions.

John Vicars

John Vicars (1582, London-12 April 1652, Christ's Hospital, Greyfriars, London) was an English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War.

Joseph Jordan

During the English Civil War, he served in the parliamentary navy commanding the merchantman Caesar in the summer guard of 1642; later that year he was recorded taking castles around the Isle of Wight.

Kingstanding

The name of the area is derived from the occasion when the Stuart King Charles I supposedly reviewed his troops standing on the Neolithic Bowl Barrow in the area on October 18, 1642 during the English Civil War, after his stay at nearby Aston Hall.

Launceston Castle

During the Civil War, the castle's walls and defences were in such a poor state of repair that the Parliamentarian army did not bother to slight them when they gained control of the castle from the Royalists.

Lichfield Heritage Centre

There are also two audio-visual presentations which feature stories into Lichfield's ancient past, the building of the Cathedral and the sieges during the Civil War.

Lostwithiel Stannary Palace

In September 1644 AD, the English Civil War was at its height and the town of Lostwithiel was taken by the Earl of Essex who made it his headquarters.

Mersea Island

In the English Civil War, the Parliamentary Army built a blockhouse at East Mersea in 1648, with the aim of blockading the River Colne and the besieged town of Colchester.

Orton on the Hill

During the English Civil War Reverend Porter, the Vicar of Orton, appears to have harboured royalist sympathies and faced ejection.

Robert Morison

During the English Civil War he joined the Royalist Cavaliers and was seriously wounded at the 1639 Battle of the Bridge of Dee during the Civil War.

Sherburn-in-Elmet

During the English Civil War, the village was garrisoned by the Royalists for King Charles I; it was close to their stronghold at Selby and the northern capital of York, and commanded the approaches from both the south and the west.

Siege of Portsmouth

The Siege of Portsmouth was the siege of a Royalist garrison in Portsmouth by a Parliamentarian force conducted in the early part of the English Civil War.

Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet

Meanwhile the younger Hotham was taking an active part in the Civil War in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, but was soon at variance with other parliamentary leaders, especially with Lord Fairfax and his son Sir Thomas Fairfax, and complaints about his conduct and that of his troops were made by Oliver Cromwell and by Colonel John Hutchinson.

Sir John Pryce, 1st Baronet

On 12 October 1642, together with his fellow-member Richard Herbert he was disabled from sitting in parliament, on account of their having joined the king at Oxford in the initial stages of the English Civil War.

St Mary de Lode Church

In March 1643 and also in 1646, during the English Civil War, the church was used as a prison to hold royalist soldiers captured by Sir William Waller and Lieut.

St Mary's Church, North Leigh

The parents of the Civil War Speaker of the House Commons, William Lenthall, came from North Leigh and are buried in the church.

Stormrider

The later books in the Rigante series can be seen as broad parallels to the Anglo-Scottish Wars of the sixteenth century and the English Civil War of the seventeenth century.

Super Black Market Clash

"The Prisoner," the cover of "Pressure Drop" by Toots and the Maytals, "City of the Dead," and "Armagideon Time" had all been UK b-sides from the period 1977-79, respectively of "White Man in Hammersmith Palais," "English Civil War," "Complete Control," and "London Calling." "Pressure Drop" is presented here in a remix by Bill Price.

Thomas Overton

His parents were James Overton and Mary Waller; his father was a great-grandson of Robert Overton, the Parliamentarian military commander during the English Civil War (and friend of Marvell and Milton).

Thornhill, West Yorkshire

The Saviles remained here until the English Civil War when the house was besieged, (having been previously fortified by Sir William Savile, the third baronet of the family), taken and demolished by the forces of Parliament.

Wardour, Wiltshire

Slighted during the English Civil War, this stronghold was replaced by New Wardour Castle, long the home of the Lords Arundell of Wardour and later that of Cranbourne Chase School.

Wrington

Samuel Crooke, noted preacher and strong supporter of the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War, was vicar of Wrington for almost 50 years.


see also

Anthony Morgan

Anthony Morgan of Marshfield and Casebuchan (born 1627), Royalist officer during the English Civil War

Sir Anthony Morgan of Kilflgin (d. 1665), Royalist officer during the English Civil War

Battle of Gloucester

Siege of Gloucester, a siege in England in 1643 during the First English Civil War

Baynham Throckmorton

Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet (c. 1606-1664), supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War and was a Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire from 1661 until his death on 28 May 1664.

Bernard Stewart

Lord Bernard Stewart (1623–1645), Scottish aristocrat and Royalist commander in the English Civil War

Black Tom

"Black Tom", nickname of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1612–1671), English Civil War Parliamentary general

Committee of Safety

English Committee of Safety, the parliamentary body in England that oversaw the English Civil War

Cornish currency

A Royalist mint was established in Truro in 1642-43 during the English Civil War by Sir Richard Vyvyan; in September 1643 it was moved to Exeter.

Edward Morgan

Sir Edward Morgan, 1st Baronet (died 1653), Catholic supporter of King Charles I during the English Civil War

Francis Wortley

Sir Francis Wortley, 1st Baronet (1591–1652), poet and Royalist officer in the English Civil War

George Bourchier

George Bouchier or Bourchier (died 1643), wealthy merchant of Bristol who supported the royalist cause during the English Civil War

Hampden

John Hampden (circa 1595–1643), English politician and Roundhead in the English Civil War

Henry Norwood

Henry Norwood (c.1614-89), of Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War and was a Member of Parliament.

Holborne

James Holborne of Menstrie, Scottish soldier during the years of the English Civil War

Hopton, Derbyshire

Notable members include Sir John Gell who was a Parliamentarian in the English Civil War and Sir William Gell who was an archaeologist.

Jenkin Jones

He was a prominent soldier and preacher during the English Civil War, and was married to the niece of Bussy Mansell, a leading Parliamentarian in Glamorgan.

John Fenwick

John Fenwicke (c.1593–1670), supported the parliamentary cause during the English Civil War.

John Gell

Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet (1592–1671), Parliamentarian in the English Civil War

John Trelawny

Sir John Trelawny, 1st Baronet (1592-1664), Royalist before and during the English Civil War

John Tyler Linton

Linton's Ford was part of the land owned by a family of English "Cavaliers" (followers of King Charles I of England) who came to Virginia from Scotland just after the English Civil War and settled in Prince William County, Virginia.

Lord Goring

George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich (1585–1683), prominent Royalist in the English Civil War

Lord Stewart

Lord Bernard Stewart (1623–1645), a Royalist commander in the English Civil War

Philip Jones

Philip Jones of Fonmon (1618–1674), Welsh Colonel in the Parliamentary Army during the English Civil War and a Member of Parliament

Rainsborough

Thomas Rainsborough (1610-1648), Colonel in the English Civil War, brother of William Rainborowe

Richard Byron

Richard Byron, 2nd Baron Byron (1606–1679), English Royalist during the English Civil War

Richard Norton

Richard Norton of Southwick Park (1615–1691), British colonel in the parliamentary army in the English Civil War; MP and Governor of Portsmouth

Richard Vyvyan

Sir Richard Vyvyan, 1st Baronet (c. 1613–1665), Member of Parliament and Royalist during the English Civil War

Richard Willis

Sir Richard Willis, 1st Baronet (1614–1690), Royalist officer during the English Civil War

Robert Brooke

Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke (1607–1643), English Civil War Parliamentarian general

Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Baronet

Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Baronet, of Chippenham (c. 1616–1664), Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire and a soldier for the parliamentary cause during the English Civil War

Sir Richard Hutton, the younger

The History of the Ancient Borough of Pontefract by B Boothroyd, printed by and for the author, 1807 details Sir Richard Hutton, the younger's involvement in the sieges of Pontefract Castle during the English Civil War and his death at the battle of Sherburn-in-Elmet

The Familiar of Zero

:Cromwell is named after the leader of the Roundheads during the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell, who successfully ousted the Monarchy, and establishing a brief reign as Lord Protector until the return of Charles II.

Thomas Chamberlayne

Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, 1st Baronet (died 1643), of Wickham, Oxfordshire supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.

Tolhurst

Jeremiah Tolhurst - English Civil War soldier, businessman and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1654 and 1660

Viscount Wentworth

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (13 April 1593 (O.S.) – 12 May 1641) was an English statesman and a major figure in the period leading up to the English Civil War.

William Brockman

Sir William Brockman (1595–1654), military leader during the English civil war

William Strickland

Sir William Strickland, 1st Baronet (c. 1596–1673), Member of Parliament during the English Civil War

Windebank

Sir Thomas Windebank, 1st Baronet (born c. 1612), M.P. for Wootton Bassett and supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.