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Title: The great civil war of the times of Charles I and Cromwell; with thirty highly-finished engravings
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Cattermole, Richard, 1795?-1858
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Publisher: London, Bohn
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urt for the prince, separate from that of his royal parent,tended to the increase of those feuds among the royalists, 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 military command, because he foresaw that the necessary delegation of the dutiesof the office to others, in consequence of his youth, would not fail to aggravate the exist-ing jealousies and disputes. But Rupert, when, in an evil hour, he was offered the chiefcommand of the army, had touched a string in the kings heart which never vibratedwithout pleasure, by refusing to accept it unless in quality of lieutenant to his cousin.Accordingly, Prince Charles was appointed generalissimo of all the kings armies; anda deputation of noblemen and gentlemen coming at this time to sohcit the kings
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CAMPAIGN OF 1G45 NASEBY. 1 G9 approval of an association of the four western counties^ -wliicli they clesned to placeunder the princes immediate direction; at the same time offering to pro\ide for Idsdignity, and to raise troops for the defence of his person; the king consented farther tonominate him its general. In the end, this double command, confen-ed on a youth ofeighteen, became either wholly insignificant, or absolutely iujm-ious to the royal cause. A wiser policy, both projected and executed by one master-intellect, directed theaffairs of the parliament. From this time, dui-ing a long succession of years, the desti-nies of England, as far as they were committed to the operation of second causes, aiemainly beheld in the career of Cromwell. Under the direction, secret or aclmow-ledgcd, of that extraordinary person, the reconstruction of the army was completed,without mutinies, and almost mthout discontents among the soldiery -. wherever any suchoccurred, his acti\ity and decisio

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