Reasons for Parliamentary Victory
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- Created on: 22-01-15 09:27
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- Reasons for Paliamentary Victory
- PARLIAMENT EFFECTIVE TAXATION
- Kent 1645 - More money gained in 1 month than in a whole year of ship money in 1630's
- Monthly assessment by late 1640's, up to £90,000 per month
- Allowed N.M.A to be resourced
- ALLIES
- Sept 1643 - Charles signed the cessation with the Irish. In return for granting toleration for Catholics in Ireland, Irish troops would come to England to fight in Royalist side
- Propaganda disaster for Charles when this was made public. Also the Irish troops were of little use as they arrived in small groups
- Sept 1643 - Parliament signed an alliance with the Scots Covenanters. Provided an army of 21,000 men in return for a Presbyterian church settlement after the war
- Mixed blessing as some of the MPs and many in the parliamentary army were unhappy (created divisions)
- Sept 1643 - Charles signed the cessation with the Irish. In return for granting toleration for Catholics in Ireland, Irish troops would come to England to fight in Royalist side
- NEW MODEL ARMY ORDINANCE
- Single nation "go anywhere" Parliamentary army of 21,000 men, well paid commanded by Thomas Fairfax, a non-political professional soldier
- Feb 1645
- SELF- DENYING ORDINANCE:
- 1645
- All MPs/peers to give up their military commands
- To get rid of incompetent commanders such as Manchester and Essex
- Cromwell was exempted from this and was appointed commander of the cavalry
- Was Cromwell prepared to sacrifice his position for the war effect, or did he know that he would be exempted from the Self Denying Ordinance
- General determination amounst MPs to end the war
- KING FAILED TO CAPATILISE ON SUCCESS
- PARLIAMENT HELD LONDON AND MAJOR POINTS
- PARLIAMENT EFFECTIVE TAXATION
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