The King's Peace, 1637-1641

✍ Scribed by C. V. Wedgwood

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 528
• Series: The Great Rebellion
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The King's Peace 1637-1641

Day by day, almost hour by hour, C V Wedgwood describes the four uneasy years that were to explode into civil war - a devastation that cost King Charles his life and won the rebels their revolution. Conveying the bewildering momentum of events as the King's peace is overtaken by suspicion, disorder and the sword, she writes history, said The Times, 'in the only way taht matters, as a living re-creation of the past'.

'A superb book, beautifully written. I have no doubt at all that she makes the onset of the Civil War more intelligible than any historian before her' - A L Rowse

The King's War 1641-1647 and The Trial of Charles I are also published by Penguin

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgment
Contents
Book One: The Happiest King in Christendom, June 1637
I. Court and Country
II. Faith and Foreign Politics
III. The King’s Peace and the King’s Revenue
Book Two: Challenge From Scotland, June 1637 - July 1639
I. The Covenant
II. Ship-Money
III. The Glasgow Assembly
IV. The First Scots War
Book Three: An Army in Ireland, August 1639 - November 1641
I. The Return op the Lord Deputy
II. The Short Parliament
III. The Second Scots War
IV. Parliament and the Crown
V. The End of Strafford
VI. The King and John Pym
VII. Scotland and Ireland
Bibliographical Note
Index