Royalists and Royalism during the English Civil Wars

268 Pages·2007·1.89 MB·English

by  Jason McElligott

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Royalists and Royalism during the
English Civil Wars
MuchinkhasbeenspentonaccountsoftheEnglishCivilWarsofthe
mid-seventeenthcentury,yetroyalismhasbeenlargelyneglected.This
pioneeringvolumeofessaysbyleadingscholarsinthefieldseekstofill
thatsignificantgapinourunderstandingbyfocusingonthosewhotook
up arms for the king. The royalists described were not reactionary,
absolutist extremists but pragmatic, moderate men who were not so
differentintemperamentorbackgroundfromthevastmajorityofthose
whodecidedtosidewith,orwereforcedbycircumstancestosidewith,
Parliament and its army. The chapters force us to think beyond the
simplisticdichotomybetweenroyalist(cid:2)absolutists(cid:3)and(cid:2)constitutional-
ists(cid:3), and suggest instead that allegiances were much more fluid and
contingentthanhashithertobeenrecognized. Thisisamajorcontri-
butiontothepoliticalandintellectualhistoryoftheCivilWarsandof
earlymodernEnglandmoregenerally.
JasonMcElligottistheJ.P.R.LyellResearchFellowintheHistoryof
theEarly-ModernPrintedBookatMertonCollege,Oxford.Heisthe
author of Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England
(2007)andtheeditorofFear,ExclusionandRevolution:RogerMorrice
andBritaininthe1680s(2006).
DavidL.SmithisFellowandDirectorofStudiesinHistoryatSelwyn
College, Cambridge. His previous publications include Cromwell and
the Interregnum(2003) and,with Graham E. Seel,Crown and Parlia-
ments,1558–1689(2001).

Royalists and Royalism during
the English Civil Wars
Editedby
Jason McElligott
MertonCollege,Oxford
and
David L. Smith
SelwynCollege,Cambridge
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In Memory of
Lawrence George Smith (1918–2006)

Contents
Noteson contributors ix
Preface xi
Abbreviations xiii
1 Introduction: rethinking royalists and royalism
Jason McElligott andDavid L. Smith 1
2 A lessonin loyalty: CharlesIand the
ShortParliament
Mark A. Kishlansky 16
3 The Court andtheemergence ofa royalist party
Malcolm Smuts 43
4 Varieties of royalism
Barbara Donagan 66
5 Royalist reputations: theCavalier ideal and
thereality
Ian Roy 89
6 Counsel andcabal inthe king(cid:3)sparty, 1642–1646
David Scott 112
7 (cid:2)Idoedesire tobe rightly vnderstood(cid:3):rhetorical
strategies in theletters ofCharles I
Sarah Poynting 136
8 Royalists and theNewModel Army in1647:
circumstance, principle andcompromise
Rachel Foxley 155
9 The royalist origins ofthe separation of powers
Michael Mendle 175
vii
viii Contents
10 (cid:2)ANo-King, or aNew(cid:3).Royalistsand thesuccession,
1648–1649
Sean Kelsey 192
11 The royalism of AndrewMarvell
Blair Worden 214
Subject Index 239
Author Index 250