Identifier: shorthistoryofen00lars (find matches)
Title: A short history of England and the British Empire
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938
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Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, men witha profound respect for the historic rights of monarchy, who wereunwilling to see the royal prerogative diminished in favor ofParties in the upstarts in the house of commons. The An-the conflict. gHcan naturally drifted into the royal following,while the Puritan stood with parliament; still, there were manyPuritans who finally chose to support the king. The peerswith their tenants and retainers were commonly found in the roy-alist ranks; at the same time there were many men of sub-stance on the side of the revolutionists: the parliamentarianarmies were commanded by Puritan lords. In general, thenorth and the west rallied to the support of the dynasty, whilethe east and the south sympathized with the parliamentarians. 324. Advantages and Disadvantages of the Parties.When the war broke out, each side had certain decided advan-tages, though at first conditions appeared to favor the king.The nobles and the gentlemen who volunteered for his service 354 ENGLAND DURING THE CIVIL WAR
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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF PARTIES 355 were men who spent much time in the saddle and were trainedto the use of arms; consequently, the king had a Thereliable army from the very beginning. There Cavaliers-were also some excellent officers among these royalist cav-aliers, the mostnoted, though notthe ablest, of whomwas Prince Rupertof the Prince Palati- RuPert-nate,1 the kingsnephew, who wonfame as a brilliant,though somewhatreckless, cavalryleader. Many ofthe cavaliers werevery wealthy andcontributed liberallyto the royal warchest; but the sup-ply was not inex-haustible and theking was often insore straits for funds.On the otherhand, parliamenthad three distinctadvantages which eventually led to victory: the parliamenta-rians controlled the wealthiest and most populous Advantages ofsection of the kingdom ; they had the support of the Pariia-the fleet that King Charles had built and equipped mena few years before, with its crews which had been starved inthe interest of personal mo

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