the first bishops war Flashcards
causes of the war
scotland/ireland/English/protestant/cathiolic grevieneces- episcoapal structure+bishops+book of socmmon prayer
c.1 wanted to confront Scotland and take Edinburgh for himself
national covalent 1638
royalist forces
15-20k assembled at York, led by early of Arundel + holland . had access to parlienemntry finances+ coat and conduct, had recutirits of catholics in his army. poor equipped miltary/less paid(incentive)
coat and conduct (royalist forces)
tax fund to local miltas > met with opp non compliance from English gentry
covenanters
12k, commanded by Alexander Leslie and early of Montrose, relationship with proetasnts Northern Europe, support among locals, well battled hardened troops. English troops felt sympathetics to Scottish
how it played out: 3 pronged attack
covenanters moved swiftly to capture all ports in Scotland, Edinburgh from south, ireland easy, navy west. it was hard for c.1 to fund all this as ship money not paying (since Hampden case) leading to treaty of Ripon giving land to Scotland (durham/northumberland)
how it played out: the earl of montrose
he defeated Scottish royalist, led by marquis of huntly in order to control Aberdeenshire.
how it played out: king marched north from York to Berwick
in attempts to invade Scotland, meanwhile royalist hamliton led naval assume sailing from east Angola to eastern scot(failed as struggled to land) but when he dead easily defeated by monstrose covaneterns
how it played out: defeated by Montrose covaneterns so (proclamation)
royalist troops sed to duns to issue proclamation to Scots promising they would pardon all rebels if they submitted in 8 days to which the Scots unnerved advanced to Kelso. the earl of Hollands calvary trie to probe the Scottish position and the size and profusion of Scottish forced overwhelmed holland so he retreated back to berwick(English soldiers deserted)
by June, c.1 failed to
intimidate Scots, lead successful naval attack, realised didn’t have financial booking, his solders were poorly trained and no match for Scots = TREATY OF BERWICK
TREATY OF BERWICK
both sides agreed to mobilise army, c.1 allowed Scots to collect their parliament (he wanted truce to buy time for another attack on Scotland)
consequences of the war (since treaty of berwick)
relationships with c.1 and sects worked as both sides failed to fully disband their armies, the vernal assembly confirmed its decisions of 1638(abolish bishops and prayer book) Scottish aplriemnt declared it would dismantle royal power in Scotland
c.1 recalled Thomas wentrowth from ireland sep 1639
named him earl of stratfrom, he advised recall fo aplriement to raise subsides for war thus palriemnt met for first tie in 1640
the short palriemnt (5 weeks)
demanded to mps they should grant subsidies and listen to greievneses after, he was hopeful crown would be supplied with subsides for the war with Scotland (many eng was anti Scottish) however they was concentrated on pr por. and most puritans in aplriemnt sides with covenanters opposing lauding church
