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God's Fury, England's Fire_ A New History of the English Civil Wars - Michael J. Braddick [492]

By Root 1099 0
… 366, 367

Micro-chronicon, Wharton as probable author 450

Wharton, Philip, 4th Baron 501

White, Major Francis 511, 512

White, John (Northamptonshire royalist) 218

White, John, his attack on Essex’s effigy 478–9

White, Robert 195

White Lion prison, London 93, 116

Whitehall Palace/Banqueting House 527, 528

C’s execution in 577–8

Whitelocke, Bulstrode 209, 210

Wight, Sarah 410

Wilde, Sergeant 540

Wildman, John 512, 519, 559

A Call to All the Soldiers…, Wildman as probable author of 517

Williams, Richard: Peace and No Peace 256

Williams, Roger 343, 369, 443, 458, 534

Bloudy Tenent of Persecution 340–41, 460

Queries of Highest Consideration 341

Willis, Humphrey 424

Times Whirligig… 424, 425

Willoughby (a scrivener in London) 53

Willoughby of Eresby, Lord 228

Willoughby of Parham, Francis, 1st Lord 220

Wilmore, John and Mary 202–3

Wilmot, Henry (later 1st Earl of Rochester) 244

Wilson, Arthur 430

Wiltshire 63, 99, 100, 288, 387, 531

clubmen in 413, 414, 415, 417, 418, 419

Winceby engagement, 1643 321

Winchester 265, 387

Winchester, John Paulet, 5th Marquess 387, 405, 477

Windebank, Francis (son of Sir Francis Windebank) 99

Windebank, Sir Francis 91, 98

Windsor 182, 185

Wiseman, Richard 390–91, 457–8

Chirurgicall treatises 474–5

on scrofula 474–5

Treatment of Wounds 391

witches/witch trials 428–34, 435, 463

witchfinders 429–30, 432, 434

women 217, 403, 545

as camp followers 317, 378, 387, 408, 434

care of the wounded, payment for 403, 408

childbirth 202–3

churching of 76, 102

as Levellers 410, 411

as prophets 410, 566–7

rape of 387, 396

role of 184–5, 408–11, 429, 434–5

sectarianism and 409–10, 411, 434

women preachers 344–5, 409, 410

women writers 411

wonders 111, 113, 201-2, 255–6, 504–6, 592–3

See also monsters/monstrous births; providence; supernatural phenomena

Wood, William 255

Woodford, Robert 121

Worcester 327, 388, 483

Worcester, battle of, 1651 390

Worcester/Powick Bridge engagement, 1642 241, 250, 251

Worcester, Edward Somerset, 2nd

Marquess and 6th Earl 212, 224, 285

Worcestershire 212, 213, 214, 221, 287

clubmen in 413, 414, 417–19

militia in 219, 220

taxation in 403–4

Worse and worse newes from Ireland 167

Worsley, Henry 526

Wrinkles, Thomas 218

York 83, 86, 212, 221, 326

C and 187, 190, 475

Clifford Tower 498

Great Council meeting, 1640 105

Sydenham Poyntz in 493, 498

royalist capture of 251; siege of, 1644 326–7, 328, 346; significance of 329; C’s letter to Prince Rupert on 328–9; lifting of 329, 331

See also Marston Moor

Yorkshire 210, 235, 462, 548

East Riding 221

neutralism in 220–21

parliamentarians in 221, 222, 251

royalist campaign 251, 289, 297, 298, 326, 386

West Riding 172, 184, 221, 251, 288–9, 297

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Maps

Preface

The Crisis of the Three Kingdoms, 1637–1642

2 Self-Government at the King’s Command

3 Drawing Swords in the King’s Service

4 We Dream Now of a Golden Age

5 Barbarous Catholics and Puritan Populists

6 Paper Combats

7 Raising Forces

War, 1642–1646

9 Military Escalation, Loyalty and Honour

10 The War of the Three Kingdoms

11 Marston Moor

12 A Man Not Famous But Notorious

13 Naseby and the End of the War

14 Winners and Losers

15 Remaking the Local Community

Revolution, 1646–1649

17 Military Defeat and Political Survival

18 The Army, the People and the Scots

19 To Preserve That Which God Hath Manifestly Declared Against

20 The Occasioner, Author, and Continuer of the Said Unnatural, Cruel and Bloody Wars

21 Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Picture Credits

Abbreviations

Note on Authorship and Dating of Pamphlets

Note on Dates and Quotations

Notes and References

Bibliography of Secondary Works

Index

1. Charles I leaving Oxford in disguise, April 1646. (Engraving, anon., 1648)

2. English soldiers reported to be embracing their Scottish adversaries rather than fighting them, i

3 and 4. Portraits of Charles I from the 1630s. (Oils, Sir Anthony Van Dyke, 1635, 1636)

5. The Prayer Book disturbances in Edinburgh in 1637. (Engraving, anon., 1648)

6. The Royal

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