p. 137, l. 31. Charles had in fact called the “Short Parliament” to meet between these two expeditions but had quarrelled with it and dissolved it.
p. 138, l. 7. The Scotch had no real part in the death of the King. The Presbyterians indeed upheld monarchy though not as Charles understood it.
p. 140, l. 26. The Long Parliament of 1640 passed an act by which it could not be dissolved without its own consent.
p. 143, l. 4. The Treaty of Ripon (October 1640) left Northumberland and Durham in the hands of the Scotch until the King should be able to pay the L850 a day during their stay in England which he promised them.
p. 143, l. 9. The permanent treaty signed in 1641 gave consent to all the demands of the Scotch, including their freedom to abolish episcopacy.
p. 143, l. 29. The Earl of Stafford had been the chief supporter of Charles’ method of government without parliament. He was executed in 1641 and Laud suffered the same fate in 1645.
p. 144, l. 21. By the “Grand Remonstrance” the parliament tried to seize on the royal power.
p. 146, l. 13. The “gentry” of England were not, of course, all on the Royalist side. Many of them, and some of the nobility, fought for the parliament, though it is true that the majority were for the King.
p. 151, l. 27. In 1643 by the Solemn League and Covenant the Scotch consented to help parliament against the King on condition that Presbyterianism should be adopted as the English state religion.
p. 159, l. 33. The left wing was under the command of Lord Wilmot.
p. 170, l. 36. Leicester was taken by the King in 1645.
p. 180, l. 28. The Cavalier ascribes to himself the part taken by Prince Maurice (the brother of Prince Rupert) and Lord Wilmot in bringing aid to Hopton.
p. 187, l. 29. It was the King rather than the parliamentarians who was anxious to give battle. The Royalists barred the way to London.
p. 189, l. 32. See note to p. 61, l. 39.
p. 192, l. 29. The parliamentarians certainly won a victory at the second battle of Newbury.
p. 194, l. 2. The Scotch nobles, alarmed at the violence of the parliamentarians, supported Charles in the second civil war (1648), and after his death Scotland recognised Charles II as King. Cromwell however conquered their country.
p. 194, l. 27. In 1641 a great Irish rebellion had followed the recall of Strafford who had been Lord Lieutenant of that country.
p. 195, l. 12. It was not until 1645, when his cause was declining in England, that Charles determined to seek direct help from the Irish. This he did in the Glamorgan Treaty of that year by which he agreed to the legal restoration of Catholicism in Ireland. But the Treaty was discovered by the Parliament and Charles denied any knowledge of it.
p. 196, l. 11. The “Grand Seignior” was the name generally given to the Sultan of Turkey.
p. 197, l. 5. William Prynne was the famous Puritan lawyer whose imprisonment by the Star Chamber had made him one of the heroes of Puritanism. George Buchanan was the famous Scotch scholar from whom James I had derived much of his learning.
p. 197, l. 28. The dates are given both according to our present mode of reckoning and according to the old system by which the year commenced on 25th March.
p. 198, l. 6. The Scots besieged Newcastle for nine months, not merely a few days as the Cavalier relates.
p. 202, l. 39. The great Spanish general, the Duke of Parma, went to the relief of Paris which was in the hands of the Catholics and was being besieged by the then Protestant Henry of Navarre in 1590.
p. 204, l. 9. As pointed out in the introduction the Cavalier’s account of the disposition of forces in this battle is inaccurate.
p. 205, l. 27. It was really Rupert’s hitherto unconquered cavalry which was thus borne down by Cromwell’s horse.
p. 216, l. 4. A posset was a drink of milk curdled with an acid liquid.
p. 219, l. 40. The Grisons are the people of one of the Swiss Cantons.
p. 222, l. 36. Newcastle was not retaken by Rupert.
p. 230, l. 8. By the Self-Denying Ordinance of 1645 all members of Parliament were compelled to resign their commands. This rid the parliamentarians of some of their most incapable commanders. Exception was made in favour of Cromwell who was soon appointed Lieutenant General.
p. 230, l. 17. On the “New Model” the armies of the parliamentary side were reorganized as a whole, made permanent, and given a uniform and regular pay.
p. 231, l. 15. It was not only the ecclesiastical conditions laid down by the parliamentarians at the Treaty of Uxbridge which determined the King’s refusal. He was asked besides taking the Covenant to surrender the militia.
p. 243, l. 26. The estates of many of the Cavalier gentlemen were forfeited. Some were allowed to “compound,” i.e. to keep part of their estates on payment of a sum of money.
p. 253, l. 32. Montrose had created a Royalist party in Scotland and was fighting there for the King.
p. 258, l. 1. The “forlorn” was a body of men sent in advance of an expedition.
p. 272, l. 21. After the defeat of the Royalists dissension arose between the parliament and the army and naturally the army was able to coerce the parliament.
p. 274, l. 2. Cornet Joyce secured the person of the King by the order of Cromwell, the idol of the army.
p. 274, l. 26. The Cavalier exaggerates the likelihood of an understanding between the King and the parliament. In reality Charles was merely playing off one party against the other.
p. 275, l. 7. In January 1648 parliament had passed a vote of “No Addresses,” renouncing any further negotiation with the King, but after the second civil war of that year (in which the Presbyterians joined the King) they resumed them again in the Treaty of Newport. The army however became more violent, and the result was the forcible exclusion of all moderate members of parliament in “Pride’s Purge,” December 1648. The trial and execution of the King followed.
p. 275, l. 35. The Cavalier refers to the acts of retaliation which followed the Restoration of Charles II.
p. 276, l. 27. There were many republicans among the “Independents” or “Sectaries” in the army, but the policy actually carried out can hardly have been planned before the war.
p. 278, l. 5. Cardinal Bellarmine was one of the great Controversialists of the Counter-Reformation.