A short history of England . It soon showed what it coulddo. After a number of minor engagementsa great battle was fought at Naseby, June 14,1645. Tne kings army was scattered and theking himself driven into flight accompaniedonly by a small body of horsemen. CromwellWooden Figure of an again had the principal part in the victory. icer o n an ry yymost as inimious to the king as the loss ofof the New Model J ° the battle was the capture by the parliamentary army of his private cabinet containing copies of the letters he had recently written to the queen. These showed that while negotiating wit
A short history of England . It soon showed what it coulddo. After a number of minor engagementsa great battle was fought at Naseby, June 14,1645. Tne kings army was scattered and theking himself driven into flight accompaniedonly by a small body of horsemen. CromwellWooden Figure of an again had the principal part in the victory. icer o n an ry yymost as inimious to the king as the loss ofof the New Model J ° the battle was the capture by the parliamentary army of his private cabinet containing copies of the letters he had recently written to the queen. These showed that while negotiating with parliament he was planning to bring a foreign army into England, and that no promises which he had made could be depended upon. The war went on for some months longer, but it all went one way now. In almost every battle the New Model army was victorious ; one after another they captured the castles, forts, and fortified country houses held for the king, till there was no organized royalist army in the field, and Charles. Army GREAT REBELLION AND COMMONWEALTH 449 at his headquarters in Oxford had no choice but to surrender insome form. He chose to give himself up to the Scotch army,and rode into their lines in May, 1646. Soon afterwards the Scotshanded the king over to commissioners representing the Englishparliament, by whose order he was held in honorable imprison-ment at Holmby House, Northamptonshire. The Scotch armyhad its expenses paid by the English parliament and marchedback to Scotland. 402. Negotiations with the King.—From the time of Charlesssurrender a continuous series of negotiations was carried onbetween the king and parliament. Plan after plan was proposedby one side or the other, according to which the king should berestored to the throne and guarantees be given for the Presby-terian organization of the church and the liberties of one after another the plans were refused either by the kingor parliament. As a matter of fact Charles was always
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