civil war

4. Attempts by the Catholic church and secular Catholic authorities to stem the flow of Protestantism and reform some of the worst excesses of medieval Catholicism.
6. Parliamentary proceedings against a King's minister for failing to carry out his duties in the prescribed manner.
7. states: a country that occupies most of the southern half of North America as well as Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands.
8. The name of the agreement signed by Charles and the Scottish Covenanters on December 26th, 1647. Under the terms of the Engagement, the Scots would provide Charles with an army of 20,000 men on condition that he introduced Presbyterianism to England for three years following his return to the throne.
9. The name given to a political settlement which predominated during the later republic.
11. Pertaining to the Church of England, a moderately reformed Protestant church organised along Episcopal lines (i.e. with bishops).
12. A war between citezins of the same country.

1. A term applied to the senior officers in the New Model Army, usually drawn from a higher social class than the rank and file troops.
2. The term applied to Cromwell's Cavalry, so-called because of their metal breastplates. Later applied to all Parliamentary cavalry who wore similar armour.
3. The political settlement of the early Republican period (1649- 53)
5. A system of political thought which asserts that monarchs are anointed by God to rule on earth, and that to challenge a sovereign's will is to defy the will of God.
10. The term applied to Scottish Protestants who endorsed the 1638 National Covenant which affirmed a determination to defend the Scottish Kirk from Laudian reforms.