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Quiz on the English Civil War: Key Events and Figures

This quiz tests your knowledge of the English Civil War, its key combatants, events, and historical significance.

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1 Which of the following was a combatant in the English Civil War?

2 Although the term describes events as impinging on England, from the outset the conflicts involved wars with and civil wars within both Scotland and Ireland; see ________ for an overview.

3 [18] Puritans accused Laud of reintroducing ________; when they complained, he had them arrested.

4 When was the English Civil War?

5 Between the two periods, and due to in-fighting amongst various factions in Parliament, Oliver Cromwell ruled over the Protectorate as ________ (effectively a military dictator) until his death in 1658.

6 In early 1641 Parliament had ________, arrested and sent to the Tower of London on a charge of treason.

7 Where did the English Civil War take place?

8 The battle took place largely at Walton-le-Dale near Preston in ________, and resulted in a victory by the troops of Cromwell over the Royalists and Scots commanded by Hamilton.

9 Because responsibility for collecting taxes lay in the hands of the ________, the English kings needed the help of that stratum of society in order to ensure the smooth collection of that revenue.

10 The execution of Charles I altered the dynamics of the Civil War in Scotland, which had raged between Royalists and ________ since 1644.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in 1644, during the English Civil War, Haggate was the scene of a skirmish in which five people were killed by King Charles I's troops.
  • during the English Civil War, the Crown Inn in Nantwich, Cheshire was used as a place of worship, as the church was used as a prison.
  • during the English Civil War, Charles I was staying in Gamul House, Chester, Cheshire, when his army was defeated at the Battle of Rowton Moor.
  • the 13th-century font in Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield (pictured) reputedly suffered a large crack when a horse, stabled inside the church during the English Civil War, kicked it.
  • the Spencer family's Wormleighton Manor in Warwickshire, England, was set ablaze by Royalist forces from Banbury during the English Civil War to prevent it becoming a parliamentary stronghold.
  • under the terms of the Bunbury Agreement, the English county of Cheshire would have remained neutral during the English Civil War.
  • the first hoard in Pembrokeshire from the Civil War was found whilst building a tennis court at Tregwynt Mansion.
  • the Battle of the Severn in 1655 in Annapolis, Maryland, was closely related to the conflicts of the English Civil War, which had concluded four years earlier in England.
  • during the English Civil War, Royalist soldiers fired artillery at Leicester from Raw Dykes Roman earthwork.
  • St Symphorian's Church in Durrington, West Sussex, was wrecked during the English Civil War by Parliamentarian villagers, who disliked their rector's Royalist views and unintelligible preaching.
  • Denton Hall (pictured), once the home of General Fairfax, the English Civil War commander-in-chief, was later sold for less than the value of the timber on the estate.
  • Cothelstone Manor was largely destroyed during the English Civil War and rebuilt 200 years later.
  • Cliffe, Richmondshire, where the "clock stopped, never to go again", is surrounded by archaeological features including barrows, a Roman road and an English Civil War battleground.
  • George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny (pictured) who was killed at the age of 24 at Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the English Civil War, was a cousin of King Charles I of England.
  • Gilbert Mabbot (1622–1670) was a pioneering journalist during the English Civil War who also served as an official licenser of the press.
  • Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War.
  • Sir Trevor Williams of Llangybi in Wales changed sides between Royalists and Parliamentarians four times in the English Civil War, before being imprisoned for the crime of scandalum magnatum.
  • Carlbury hill was the site of an English Civil War battery emplacement for a Royalist contingent at the Battle of Piercebridge.
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