Download or read book History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649, Vol. 3 of 4 written by Samuel R. Gardiner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649, Vol. 3 of 4: 1645-1647 At ready, before his return to Oxford, Charles had been play ing with each of the two parties into which his opponents were Charles divided. The attempt to open a correspondence 1; 5 With with Leven and the Scottish army was now of old Pan's date.1 There is more obscurity as regards the inter course between Charles and the Independents, but there is strong reason to believe that he had given a favourable response to overtures made to him from that quarter for an understand ing on the basis of liberty of conscience.3 On the whole, how ever, the King inclined to the Presbyterians. He was afraid of the democratic tendencies of the army, and he nuderesti mated the tenacity with which the Presbyterians clung to their ecclesiastical system. Circumstances were bringing both the Scots and the English Presbyterians to contemplate an understanding with the King. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.