Public school history of England and Canada, with introduction, hints to teachers, and brief examination questions . Bissetts History ot the Common-wealth.] 1. Civil War.—Before the sword was drawn, Charles was askedto consent that the miHtia of the country should be controlled by Parliament. But to this interferencewith the rights of the Crown he andhis counsellors would not agree ; andrallying about him, in 1642, whatforces he could obtain, he set up theroyal standard at Nottingham. Hisown headquarters he made at kings army, which soon num-bered lopoo men, was commandedby the Earl
Public school history of England and Canada, with introduction, hints to teachers, and brief examination questions . Bissetts History ot the Common-wealth.] 1. Civil War.—Before the sword was drawn, Charles was askedto consent that the miHtia of the country should be controlled by Parliament. But to this interferencewith the rights of the Crown he andhis counsellors would not agree ; andrallying about him, in 1642, whatforces he could obtain, he set up theroyal standard at Nottingham. Hisown headquarters he made at kings army, which soon num-bered lopoo men, was commandedby the Earl of Lindsay and CharlessOliver Cromwell. nephew, Prince Rupert. It was drawn mainly from the north and west of England, and its chief strengthlay in Prince Ruperts Cavaliers, a dashing body of mountednobles and gentry. The Parliamentary army, some i $,000 strong,mustered at Northampton, and was placed under the command ofthe Earl of Essex. The ranks were filled by the yeomanr>^ of thesouth and east of England, and by the stout burghers of Londonand the large towns. To these were afterwards added a body of. 1645.] THE GREAT REBELLION. 77 Puritan troopers, known as Cromwells Irofisides^ whose stubbornvalour and zeal for the Parliamentary, or, as they deemed it, Godscause, made them almost invincible. Oliver Cromwell, whoraised this body of honest and fearless men, was a prominentmember of the Opposition in Parliament, and the leader of abranch of the Puritan party called Independents. This sectmaintained that every Christian congregation was an independentChurch of itself, and therefore free from the control of either bishopor king. The great part Cromwell was to take in subsequentevents we shall soon see. The Parliamentary side had someassistance from the Scots, who in 1643 entered into a SolemnLeague wdth Parliament by which Presbyterianism was to beintroduced into England and Prelacy abolished. This compactwas for the time carried out, and an incident of its history
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