The roundheads put up a brave fight but they were finally defeated when the Royalist captain sat on the roundhead leader's stomach. |
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Exasperated roundheads would occasionally resort to pleading with regulators for help. |
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He was a cavalier in an age of roundheads, grandson not just of one of the greatest trainers who ever lived but of Sir William Lyons, the founder of Jaguar cars. |
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We can understand the class dynamic of Cavaliers and Roundheads because elements of that conflict remain powerful to this day. |
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It's a 14th Century Norman castle, which gained fame as the last Irish stronghold to submit to Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads. |
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He was led a merry dance by Lord Fairfax and his son, Sir Thomas and was never able to totally overcome this energetic pair of Roundheads. |
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On one side were the Royalists, on the other the Parliamentarians, or, as they are better known, the Cavaliers and Roundheads. |
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Religion and geopolitics gave the nation a context, an idea that the rebels' vigilance matched that of Corsican freedom fighters, English Roundheads, or even Mosaic Hebrews. |
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The film, though set during the English Civil War, ignores conflicts between Cavaliers and Roundheads to dwell on the seedy lawlessness sown by the war. |
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It is as if the history of England had continued to be written since the seventeenth century as that of the conflict between Cavaliers and Roundheads. |
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After changing hands at least half a dozen times during the English Civil War, Scarborough Castle has once again found the Roundheads at the gates. |
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The Pillar was thrown down by the Roundheads during the English Civil War and a grave under it opened. |
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When the Roundheads closed the English theaters in 1642, would-be playwrights were forced to pen closet dramas, deploying the full range of theatrical devices on paper alone. |
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However many Roundheads were Church of England, as were many Cavaliers. |
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However, the word was coined by the Roundheads as a pejorative propaganda image of a licentious, hard drinking and frivolous man, who rarely, if ever, thought of God. |
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