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King and commonwealth

Chapter 165: FOOTNOTES:
By Bertha Meriton Gardiner
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The work surveys constitutional tensions that produced conflict between king and Parliament, outlining early parliamentary crises, a prolonged period of royal personal government, and the convocation of Parliament that provokes impeachment, political fracture, and open rebellion. It follows the civil war through major campaigns and shifting alliances, describes the rise of competing religious and political factions and the army's increasing authority, and recounts the king's trial and execution and the proclamation of a republic. Later sections trace the commonwealth's military and naval efforts, experiments in republican and protectoral rule, social conditions, and the eventual disintegration of republican government leading to restoration.

FOOTNOTES:

[120] The spirit of the Ironsides is not wholly extinct. In 1856 the question whether Kansas was to be a free or slave state gave rise to a border war. John Brown, a descendant of one of the English pilgrims who sailed to America in the “Mayflower” in 1620, formed a camp of God-fearing Puritans, who were “earnestness incarnate.” Six of them were his own sons. Twenty-eight of these defeated fifty-six pro-slave borderers, and once 2000 Missourians retreated before 250 of his men. John Brown was taken and hanged in 1859, but his story became the marching-song in the great war of abolition (1861–1865).

[121] Sprigge (but see p. 392); King’s Tracts, 212.

[122] Rushworth; Whitelock; Clar. Hist. v., 175; Sprigge, Anglia Rediviva; King’s Tracts, 212; Markham, Life of Lord Fairfax; Carlyle, Letters and Speeches of Cromwell.

[123] Married Bridget Cromwell, 15th June, 1646.

[124] See p. 176.

[125] “Vous vous êtes coupé la gorge; car vous ne leur pouvez rien refuser, pas même ma vie, s’ils vous la demandent. Mais je ne me mettrai pas entre leurs mains.”

[126] Baillie.

[127] Ludlow, i. 162.