History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660: 1649-1651

Samuel Rawson Gardiner

Longmans, Green, and Company, 1894 - Great Britain

Contents

• Economical action of the Government Financial difficulties PAGE: 3
• XV: 9
• Montrose defeated: 17
• Lord Byron at the Hague: 25
• CHAPTER II: 32
• FAIRFAXS PURSUIT OF THE MUTINEERS: 57
• CHAPTER III: 62
• CHAPTER IV: 90
• THE SIEGE OF DUBLIN: 101
• Monk censured and excused: 107
• Cromwell summons Drogheda: 127
• THE SIEGE OF WEXFORD: 142
• CORK KILKENNY AND CLONMEL: 149
• 415: 158
• January Cromwells counterdeclaration: 163
• CHAPTER VII: 178
• Macleod of Assynt: 190
• Montroses language about the Covenant: 198
• CHAPTER VIII: 203
• July Montrose negotiates with the Elector of Branden: 210
• January 2 Act making the engagement compulsory: 216
• CHAPTER IX: 229
• Montrose despatches Hurry to the mainland: 234
• THE BATTLE OF CARBISDALE: 241
• CHAPTER X: 255
• xix: 273
• CHAPTER XI: 278
• CHAPTER XII: 301
• CROMWELLS OPERATIONS ROUND EDINBURGH: 305
• Cromwell on Braid Hill: 309
• August 28September 1 Cromwells retreat to Dunbar: 315
• The Scottish position: 321
• A complete victory: 327
• THE SEA POWER OF THE COMMONWEALTH: 330
• THE ENTRANCE TO THE Tagus: 332
• VOL 1: 337
• November A projected alliance with Spain against: 347
• Ayscues fleet ordered to Barbados: 352
• CHAPTER XIV: 368
• 132: 377
• January 1 Coronation of Charles II: 385
• CHAPTER XV: 394
• January The Royalist scheme of insurrection oozes out: 402
• Loves execution suspended: 411
• Expenditure of the Commonwealth: 417
• CROMWELLS OPERATIONS ROUND STIRLING: 423
• MOVEMENTS OF CROMWELL AND CHARLES II BEFORE THE BATTLE: 430
• THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER: 443
• ENGLAND AFTER WORCESTER: 448
• THE ESCAPE OF CHARLES II AFTER THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER: 450
• INDEX: 517

Popular passages

Page 317 - nearly concerneth all good people ; but the only wise God knows what is best; all shall work for good ; our spirits are comfortable, praised be the Lord, though our present condition be as it is; and indeed we have much hope in the Lord, of Whose mercy we have had large experience.

Bibliographic information

• Title: History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660: 1649-1651; Volume 1 of History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660, Samuel Rawson Gardiner
• Author: Samuel Rawson Gardiner
• Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1894
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: May 3, 2007