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Title: A short history of England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cheyney, Edward Potts, 1861-1947
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the other hand, with a group of armed followers rodeto Hull in Yorkshire, where the arms and ammunition which hadbeen provided for the Scottish « u were ind demanded possession of them, rhe commander, Sir John Hotham. who hadbeen placed in charge of that eastle by parliament, refused toadmit the king, drew up the drawbridge, and shut the gal Charles declared Hotham a traitor, rode southward to Nottingham, and there on August .• •. (64 \ in the eastle yard, setup the royal standard and called on all loyal Englishmen togather to its defense against a rebellions parliament. Parliamentappointed one of the members of the House of 1 ords. the earl of Essex, general of its forces and proceeded to e an army and get control of the navy, 395, Vho Civil War. This was the beginning of civil war.Generally speaking the northern and western parts of the conn-try took the side of the king, the southern and eastern the side from (J .1 DIVISION OP ENGLAND Into Iluiiciat oiMiiinic Of < ivil Hiir
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GREAT REBELLION AND COMMONWEALTH 443 of parliament. If ;i line were drawn roughly from the mouth ofthe Humber River southwestward to the mouth of the Severn,most of the country to the northwest of this would be royalist,that to the southeast parliamentarian. Most of the nobles,wealthier gentry, and higher churchmen were royalist, the middle(lasses were parliamentarian. The more thinly settled districts,a few of the large residence towns, and most of the smaller coun-try towns were in favor of the king, while London and othermanufacturing and commercial towns were strongly in favor ofparliament. There were of course many exceptions to thesedivisions. In general it may be said that the more advanced,thoughtful, and active-minded classes and localities were parlia-mentarian, the more conservative royalist. Something more than a majority of members of the House ofLords and a considerable number of the Commons went to jointhe king at Nottingham. Those who took the kings side werecalled l&g

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