Identifier: greatcivilwaroft00catt (find matches)
Title: The great civil war of the times of Charles I. and Cromwell
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Cattermole, Richard, 1795?-1858 Cattermole, George, 1800-1868
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Publisher: London : Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ourt for the prince, separate from that of liis royal pai-ent,tended to the increase of those feuds among the royabsts, which have been, in somedegree, described. His majestys authority at Oxford, already extremely weak, wasfarther lessened by it, without the least prospect of vigour being communicated to thatof his youthful representative. It was Charless original intention not to invest the princewith a mibtary command, because he foresaw that the necessary delegation of the dutiesof the ofSce to others, in consequence of his youth, would not faO. to aggi-avate the exist-ing jealousies and disputes. But Rupert, when, in an evil horn, he was offered the chiefcommand of the army, had touched a string in the kings heart which never vibratedwithout pleasui-e, by refusing to accept it unless in quaUty of lieutenant to liis cousin.Accordingly, Prince Charles was appointed generabssimo of aU the kings armies; anda deputation of noblemen and gentlemen coming at this time to sobcit the kings
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CAMPAIGN OF 1645 NASEBY. 169 approval of an association of the foiu western counties, wliich they desiied to placQunder the princes immediate direction; at the same time offering to provide for hisdignity, and to raise troops for the defence of his person; the king consented farther tonominate him its general. In the end, this double command, conferred on a youth ofeighteen, became either wholly insignificant, or absolutely injurious to the royal cause. A wiser policy, both projected and executed by one master-intellect, dii-ected theaffairs of the parliament. From this time, during a long succession of years, the desti-nies of England, as far as they were committed to the operation of second causes, aremainly beheld in the career of Cromwell. Under the direction, secret or acknow-ledged, of that extraordinaiy person, the reconstruction of the army was completed,without mutinies, and almost without discontents among the soldiery -. wherever any suchoccurred, his activity and decision

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