The British nation a history / by George MWrong . really begun. On August 23, 1642, with great ceremonyCharles raised the royal standard at Notting-ham. It Avas the open invitation to the nationto rally round its king. The rich southeastof England, w^th London, stood, on the whole, by the Par-liament. The north and west, poorer and with a popula-tion more scattered, were with the could appeal to the old senti-ment of loyalty and to those who lovedthe CI lurch of England or feared thedespotism of Parliament more even thantliat of the king. His supporters were,in fact, the greater p
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . really begun. On August 23, 1642, with great ceremonyCharles raised the royal standard at Notting-ham. It Avas the open invitation to the nationto rally round its king. The rich southeastof England, w^th London, stood, on the whole, by the Par-liament. The north and west, poorer and with a popula-tion more scattered, were with the could appeal to the old senti-ment of loyalty and to those who lovedthe CI lurch of England or feared thedespotism of Parliament more even thantliat of the king. His supporters were,in fact, the greater part of the nobilityand landed gentry of England — the Cavalier class. Oxford and Cam-bridge were centres of royalism. Onthe other hand the towns, the tradingclasses, and as many of the gentry as hadcome under the influence of the revivedreligious spirit of the time and heldto the sterner Puritanism, were withthe Parliament. They were nicknamedEoundheads because some of them wore their hairshort in protest against the prevailing fashion. Appar-. ROUNDIIEAUABOUT 1G4J. THE STUART MONARCHY 367
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