CHAPTER I

Charles I.—­continued.

Battle Of Edge Hill—­Treaty At Oxford—­Solemn Vow And Covenant—­Battle
Of Newbury—­Solemn League And Covenant Between The English And Scottish
Parliaments—­Cessation Of War In Ireland-Royalist Parliament At
Oxford—­Propositions Of Peace—­Battle Of Marston Moor—­The Army Of
Essex Capitulates In The West—­Self-Denying Ordinance—­Synod Of
Divines—­Directory For Public Worship—­Trial Of Archbishop Laud—­Bill Of
Attainder—­His Execution.

Treaty proposed and refused. 
Royalists. 
Parliamentarians. 
State of the two armies. 
The king’s protestation. 
Battle of Edge Hill. 
Action at Brentford. 
King retires to Oxford. 
State of the kingdom. 
Treaty at Oxford. 
Intrigues during the treaty. 
Return of the Queen. 
Fall of Reading. 
Waller’s plot. 
Solemn vow and covenant. 
Death of Hampden. 
Actions of Sir William Waller. 
The Lords propose a peace. 
Are opposed by the Commons. 
New preparations for war. 
Battle of Newbury. 
New great seal. 
Commissioners sent to Scotland. 
Solemn league and covenant. 
Scots prepare for war. 
Covenant taken in England. 
Charles seeks aid from Ireland. 
Federative assembly of the Catholics. 
Their apologies and remonstrance. 
Cessation concluded. 
A French envoy. 
Royal parliament at Oxford. 
Propositions of peace. 
Methods of raising money. 
Battle of Nantwich. 
Scottish army enters England. 
Marches and Countermarches. 
Rupert sent to relieve York. 
Battle of Marston Moor. 
Surrender of Newcastle. 
Essex marches into the west. 
His army capitulates. 
Third Battle of Newbury. 
Rise of Cromwell. 
His quarrel with Manchester. 
First self-denying ordinance. 
Army new modelled. 
Second self-denying ordinance. 
Ecclesiastical concurrences. 
Persecution of the Catholics. 
Of the Episcopalians. 
Synod of divines. 
Presbyterians and Independents. 
Demand of toleration. 
New directory. 
Trial of Archbishop Land. 
His defence. 
Bill of attainder. 
Consent of the Lords. 
Execution.

CHAPTER II.

Treaty At Uxbridge—­Victories Of Montrose In Scotland—­Defeat Of The King
At Naseby—­Surrender Of Bristol—­Charles Shut Up Within Oxford—­Mission Of
Glamorgan To Ireland—­He Is Disavowed By Charles, But Concludes A Peace
With The Irish—­The King Intrigues With The Parliament, The Scots, And The
Independents—­He Escapes To The Scottish Army—­Refuses The Concessions
Required—­Is Delivered Up By The Scots.