A short history of England . Seal of the Commonwealth, 1651, showing England andIreland, and Parliament down castles, and confiscated the lands of rebels, Catholics, andnative Irish. By 1652 Ireland was completely in the power ofthe Commonwealth. In 1650 Scotland also acknowledged Prince Charles when hecame there and agreed to accept the presbyterian system. Par-liament ordered the main part of the army to Scotland, and whenFairfax refused to go, on the ground that the Scots had a right totake Charles for their king if they wanted to, displaced him andmade Cromwell general of the whole army. I
A short history of England . Seal of the Commonwealth, 1651, showing England andIreland, and Parliament down castles, and confiscated the lands of rebels, Catholics, andnative Irish. By 1652 Ireland was completely in the power ofthe Commonwealth. In 1650 Scotland also acknowledged Prince Charles when hecame there and agreed to accept the presbyterian system. Par-liament ordered the main part of the army to Scotland, and whenFairfax refused to go, on the ground that the Scots had a right totake Charles for their king if they wanted to, displaced him andmade Cromwell general of the whole army. In September, 1650,he defeated one Scottish army at Dunbar and captured year later another Scotch army was formed, with which Charlespushed into England, hoping for a royalist rising. Cromwell 456 A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND hastened after them, and September 3, 1651, the anniversary ofDunbar, overtook and crushed them at Worcester. The militarypower of the Commonwealth was now complete. No armedresistance within t
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