CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ENGLAND CASSELL'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE GREAT REBELLION TO THE FALL OF MARLBOROUGH WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING COLOURED AND REMBRANDT PLATES VOL. III _THE KING'S EDITION_ CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED LONDON, NEW YORK, TORONTO AND MELBOURNE MCMIX ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE GREAT REBELLION. PAGE Condition of Ireland--Roger Moore's Pilgrimage--Negotiations of the Anglo-Irish with Charles--Hugh M'Mahon betrays the Plot--Rising of the Native Irish--Massacre of Protestants--Measures taken by the English Parliament--Return of Charles to London--The Grand Remonstrance--The King's Answer--His Lieutenant of the Tower--Riots in London--Blunder of the Bishops--Attempted Arrest of the Five Members--Charles leaves London--The Queen goes to Holland--Charles at York--His Repulse from Hull--Preparations for War--The Royal Standard Raised--Prince Rupert's Headstrong Folly--Battle of Edge Hill--Charles marches on London--He returns to Oxford--Cromwell in the East--The Queen in Yorkshire--Death of Hampden--Parliamentary Disasters--Battle of Newbury--Death of Lord Falkland--Negotiations with the Scots and Irish--Death of Pym--Royal Parliament at Oxford--Battle of Marston Moor--Disastrous Failure of Essex in Cornwall--Second Battle of Newbury--The Self-denying Ordinance--The New-modelled Army 1 CHAPTER II. THE GREAT REBELLION (_concluded_). The Assembly at Westminster--Trial and Death of Laud--Negotiations at Uxbridge--Meeting of the Commissioners--Impossibility of a Settlement--Prospect of Help to the King from the Continent--Charles agrees to the demands of the Irish Catholics--Discipline and Spirit of the Parliamentary Army--Campaign of the New-modelled Army--Hunting the King--Battle of Naseby--Fairfax in the West--Exploits of Montrose--Efforts of Charles to join Him--Battle of Kilsyth--Fall of Bristol--Battle of Philiphaugh--Last Efforts of the Royalists--Charles Offers to Treat--Discovery of his Correspondence with Glamorgan--Charles Intrigues with the Scots--Flight from Oxford--Surrender to the Scots at Newark--Consequent Negotiations--Proposals for Peace--Surrender of Charles to Parliament 34 CHAPTER III. END OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES I.