CHAPTER VII

King James I.; Repeal of the Statute of Philip and Mary 191

King Charles I.; Buckingham's Military Mismanagement 191

Lord Wimbledon's efforts to Restore Military Efficiency 193

Military Writers; Hopeless Condition of the English Militia 194

Collapse of the Military System at the Scotch Rebellion of 1639 194

The Collapse repeated in 1640 195

Resistance to enforcement of the Military Requirements of the King 196

Rout of the English at Newburn 198

The Scots Army subsidised by the Parliament 198

Widening of the Breach between King and Parliament 198

The Futile Struggle of both Parties for the Militia 198

Outbreak of the Civil War 199

The Rival Armies; Prince Rupert 199

Oliver Cromwell; Rupert's Shock Action at Edgehill 200

Cromwell sees the Remedy for ensuring Victory over the Royalists 200

Helplessness of the Parliament in the Early Stages of the War 201

Superiority of the Royalist Cavalry 201

The King's Success in the Campaign of 1643 202

It is checked by Cromwell 203

Fairfax and Cromwell at Winceby Fight 204

Parliament votes a Regular Army 204

The Scots cross the Tweed; the Committee of both Kingdoms 205

Marston Moor 205

Sir William Waller urges the Formation of a Permanent Army 207

Collapse of the Existing System of the Parliamentary Army 208

The New Model Army voted 208