20 marker practice ESSAY PLAN

Question 1

what is the order of importance for the FCW

Answer 1

• NMA
  includes : leadership - cavalry - recruitment
• Solemn League
  discuss reasons why needed and how it helped + some issues
• London
  economic advantage, printing presses, port

Royalist disadvantages =
- Finance
sequestration / contribution - not enough population - marquis of Worcester / Earl of Newcastle

• Leadership
  nepotism - Rupert - cavalry - HH / EDGE
• support / Oxford (call territory etc.)
  scattered - doesn’t translate to fighting
• Neutralism

Question 2

plan P1 - NMA / Leadership

Answer 2

Essex + Manchester (Newbury 1644)
self-denying Ordinance – NMA – Cromwell + Fairfax (Naseby 1645)

Charles – Nepotism incompetent (Edgehill 1642) – Rupert good (Hopton Heath LICHFIELD 1643)

Question 3

plan P2 - Solemn League

Answer 3

Agreement – Covenant – 1643 – Pym – alliance with Scots

Due to Edgehill – unsustainable

Marston Moor 1644 = 28,000 / 18,000

Charles failed in attaining any foreign aid other than the Irish – poor recruitment

Question 4

plan P3 Logistics

Answer 4

Recruitment – both good – however Royalists worse

Finance – Charles – short-term – Parliament = banks etc. PORT

Benefits of London – navy - 80% factories – Sussex –
lack of help in Oxford – plague
Royalists lost Hull – possessed (Bristol 1643)

Question 5

plan P4 Neutralism

Answer 5

Clubmen – defended counties / towns – disruptive influences – altercations with both sides – drew up peace programmes.

Widely held view – wish to end war – unnecessary death – indecisive battles.

Oxford negotiations 1643 / Parliament petitioned.

Cheshire and Staffordshire demilitarised counties.