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1. Royalist cavalry (3,5,2,3,11)
10. The overthrow of the Convenanter Army (6)
14. Diarist (6)
16. The source of his right to rule-as Charles saw it (3)
17. Royalist defender of Reading (8)
18. Radical heretics endangered by 'The Blasphemy Ordinance' (6)
19. Gunner's Tool (7)
21. Carbine (6)
22. Major General, side switcher who caused the death of John Hampden (4)
23. Delete, suppress in the press (6)
25. Scene of the massacre of a garrison in Ireland (8)
26. Standard rescuer (5)
27. First half of many a popular anti-catholic chant (2)
28. Essential for the traveller (3)
29. Country of origin of CHarles I's mother (7)
31. Siege tower (3)
32. First medal given to all ranks of a victorious English army (6)
34. Affliction of Charles I (7)
36. An emotion rare amongst adversaries in the Civil War (4)
39. Celebrity civilian slain at the siege of Boxing House (7,3,6)
41. Naseby,...June 1645 (2)
44. Protective coat (4)
46. Main ingredient in solution used for cooling gun barrel (7)
49. 1st Earl of Clarendon (4)
50. Site of signing of treaty between Charles I & Scots (5)
52. Inventor of waterproof match pipes (7,2,6)
55. The pillory, whipping, branding, the gallows were commonly used to punish their breakers (4)
56. The Earl of Derby was beaten by a cavalry regiment under Colonel Robert Lilburne at this battle (5)
57. Famous school even then (4)
58. Writer, John... First part of site of last battle of 1st Civil War (4)
59. Royalist title for Cromwell (4,2,3,4)
63. Lord Eythin (4)
65. Colonel...Haugh, killed at Preston by Scottish lancers (5)
67. Another spelling for 67 down (4)
68. Spring day of recreation (3)
72. Protecting a flank by positioning a unit at its rear (8)
73. New Model major accused of conspiring (5)
74. Cromwell's description of his troopers (3,2,6) 77. End of prayer (4)
78. Town in Sussex retaken for Parliament by Waller in 1644 (7)
80. House where the king was held in captivity before being taken to Hampton Court (6)
81. Piece of armour (5)
83. Popular name for troop of horse financed by 'bachelors & maids' of Norwich (6)
88. Abbr. Home of Fairfaxes (5)
90. Site of battle near Gainsborough (3)
91. Forlorn hope (7,6)
92. Royalist house besieged by Fairfax in 1644 (6)
94. Cornish leader of House of Commons, Charles I blamed his speeches for the assassination of Buckingham & he died in the Tower (5)
96. The king escaped to the Isle of Wight on the ... November 1647 (2)
97. The Royalist Army at the 2nd Battle of Newbury numbered...thousand (3)
99. Ammunition (5)
101. Abbreviation for front of advancing army (3)
102. Common charge against Levellers (7)
103. Colonel who led an ill-fated force from Ireland to take part in the disastrous Preston Campaign (5)
104. Roundhead dog (5)
105. Colonel who disguised his men with orange sashes and hat ribbons (4)
106. A parliament expelled by both Cromwell & Lambert (4)
108. Flags (7)
109. Her husband was Prince George of Denmark (4)
110. Detached fort with bastions (6)
111. Cromwell's home town (3)
113. Abatoir pamphlet of 1660 (9,6,9,5)

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1. Pamphlet issued to all ranks of the New Model Army (soon to be published by the Partizan Press) (3,9,10)
2. Fell to Parliament on 9 April 1646 (6)
3. The king lost more than the battle here as documented by the Partizan Press (6)
4. Major General Pichard Browne (6)
5. Hill were Cromwell scattered the Clubmen (3)
6. Ensign (7)
7. Supports for gun barrel (8)
8. ...dle a gentleman (2,1,6,4,2,1,4,1,4)
9. Regicide who died in Switzerland after a 30 year exile (6)
10. The True Levellers'(7)
11. American domain for Independents (3,7)
12. Montrose routed Burleigh before this city (8)
13. 7 of Hearts (9,5,7,5,1,4)
15. Opposite to 27 Across (3)
18. Publisher of Corantos (6)
20. Printer of the royalist weekly "Mercurius'
24. He commanded the victorious English & Dutch fleets at La Hogue (5)
30. Commander of Parliamentarian force which surrendered to Rupert at Newark (7)
32. Task obligatory for every soldier (4)
33. Island which Buckingham attempted unsuccessfully to occupy (3)
35. 'A...of an ill-ledde life' 1640 (11)
37. Sect who believed in God's universal grace and the freewill of all men to gain salvation, favoured by the king, condemned by Parliament (8)
38. Parliament of 45-50 members (4)
40. 11 x 365 and no Parliament (5,2,7)
42. Year of Strafford's death (2)
43. Expression given to keeping soldiers short of pay (7,4,4,4)
45. 17th century gun boat (5)
47. Member county of Eastern Association (7)
48. Dandy (3)
51. Leading Leveller, Imprisoned in 1647, 2nd half of East Anglian town with Cromwellion connections (4)
53. Age at which Charles 2nd saw his first battle (2)
54. Famous white poodle (3)
60. Generally appeared on the reverse of siege money (3)
61. Surrey house, built in 1610 by Sir Thomas Vavasor (3)
62. Helmet (6)
64. Year peace was concluded with France & Spain (2)
66. Site of witch trials in 1692 (5)
67. Leading General, Duke of Albemarle (5)
69. Base for the Bishop's Wars (4)
70. The last battle of the 1st Civil War was fought on...March 1646 (2)
71. Chamber forts (4)
73. Parliamentary agitation for the total abolition of episcopacy culminated in this bill (4,3,6)
75. Very successful battle for Hopton (8)
76. Scottish Regiment at Marston Moor (3)
79. Tutor to Charles 2nd, Bishop of Salisbury (5)
82. Hauling device (7)
84. Rupert's mistress (3,6)
85. Books or the gun (7)
86. Mortar shell (7)
87. Scottish barrels (9)
89. Much resented re-introduced tax (4,5)
93. Victory for Montrose near Aberdeen (6)
95. It was at half past this hour when Rupert charged at Naseby (3)
98. Year of Charles 2nd's coronation at Scone (2)
100. Described by Clarendon as 'a little vile fishing town, defended by a small dry ditch' (4)
107. Leading critic of the king (3)
112. Year of Dunbar (2)

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