Done these today (from my favourite episode, Restoration):

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Tom Lacey's proposal in the episode "Retribution" certainly has a kind of charm.

"I've proposed to foreign maidens by the score; I've always been chased off by their mothers. You have no mother. Marry me!"

1642 The King sent a message to Parliament replying to their complaint about his lifeguard. He said he could "only wonder at the causeless jealousies raised and fomented by a malignant party in Parliament ( Read more... )

1644 In Lyme, spirits were raised by the news that the sailors of the fleet had agreed to accept short rations to feed the town. Abingdon was abandoned by the royalists. Prince Rupert stormed Stockport.

1645 The King issued orders to Goring to march. Goring made excuses.

1642 Lord Ferdinando Fairfax, Sir Hugh Cholmley, Sir Philip Stapleton and the others reported to Speaker Lenthall that they had presented the King with the protestations of both houses ( Read more... )

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1643 Sir Thomas Fairfax stormed and captured Wakefield. Lord Goring was captured.

1650 Montrose hanged, drawn and quartered in Edinburgh.

I went to http://www.poetryloverspage.com/cgi-bin/random_poem.cgi and got a random poem to inspire me. I got three titles from "Spring Song" by Robert Louis Stephenson. Here is the By the Sword Divided One.

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1642 The King, who until this point had refused to accept that he needed to protect himself, agreed to a Lifeguard of Horse to defend him from harm. The young Prince of Wales was their nominal leader, but command rested with Sir Thomas Byron.

1643 Warrington was besieged by parliamentary forces.

1643 The King attempted to talk peace with both Houses of Parliament.

1644 The parliamentarians moved in to take Reading. Essex and Waller were there and talk.

1645 Fairfax reached Oxford, but since the siege train had not yet arrived, was unable to do more than look.