Historical Dictionary of the British and Irish Civil Wars 1637-1660

When a large number of the people in Scotland rejected King Charles I''s religious policy, they set in motion a train of events that resonated throughout England, Wales, and Ireland and challenged the rule of the king. Between 1637 and 1660 the British Isles were embroiled in a series of wars, rebellions, and revolutions that affected not only all the political and social institutions within them,...