Reasons For Royalist Defeat

• reasons for parts winning first civil war

  - war finance

  - pym

  - holding London

  - control of navy

  - NMA

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• parlts war finance during CW1

  - created committee of both kingdoms

  -introduced assessment (tax) in nov 1642
• part alliances during cw1

  - sl and covenant - Scots sent 21 000 men to aid parliament in return for Presbyterianism in England

  - pym kept the factions together
• reasons for royalist defeat cw1

  - weaknesses of royalists

  . administration

  . indecisiveness

  . generals

  . divisions

  . Charles as a military ;leader

  . agreements with the catholics

  . reliance on foreign aid
• how was administration a problem for the royalists cw1

  - Oxford council - limited authority

  - Charles set up another council in Bristol , removing capable men
• how was agreements with the catholics a problem for the royalists cw1

  - sept 1643 Charles signed agreement with catholic Irish rebels to end hostilities

  - catholic troops brought to England but were ineffective

  - 117 / 603 officers catholic

  - support disrupted by use of catholics