East Anglia and the Great Civil War: The Risings of Cromwell's Ironsides in the Associated Countries of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Lincoln, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Hertford (Classic Reprint) - Alfred Kingston, Paperback

• Release Date   5/13/2017
• ISBN-13   9781331279655 | 978-1-331-27965-5
• ISBN   1331279658 | 1-331-27965-8
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   Alfred Kingston
• Excerpt from East Anglia and the Great Civil War: The Risings of Cromwell's Ironsides in the Associated Countries of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Lincoln, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and HertfordIn the Great Civil War between Charles I and his Parlia ment the Eastern Counties of England earned the distinction of presenting the one great historic unity, which enabled these counties to hold their own, and, whether for good or ill, to practically determine the fate of the rest Of the kingdom in the struggle. Here the essential elements of the Puritan revolution - the revolt against abuse of human authority in religion and of Royal prerogative in the State - came into sharpest conflict. In these counties arose the one man whose acts were destined to colour all our subsequent history and here arose, too, the ever-victorious Ironsides, who with the Soldier's Pocket Bible' in their knapsacks, went forth with sturdy purpose and resistless valour, to roll back the tide of war from their own borders, and to carry the Parliamentary cause to Victory at Marston Moor and N aseby. It would, therefore, be no undue straining Of comparisons to assign an almost unique position in the Civil War to the counties and people of East Anglia - to that famous Eastern Counties' Association which, with its headquarters at Cambridge, became, under the controlling power Of the one man Oliver Cromwell, the great Parliamentary recruiting-ground ground whose forces were destined to turn the scale in favour of the popular cause at more than one critical point in the War.The issue between King and Parliament, as it presented itself in the first instance to the men of the Fens, was one upon which there was little room for mere chauvinism. These men of the Fenlands, while they were loyal to the principle of kingship, were prepared to judge the King, or rather his ministers, by principles of government. and, as those principles were thought to be subversive of the true Protestant religion, in which and in the God of Heaven they did verily believe, it is not surprising to find that the bulk of the people in these Eastern Counties were emphatically against the King and the Bishops.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully. any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.