• The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause, is a comedic play written by Aphra Behn, first performed in 1681 and published in 1682. An adaptation of John Tatum’s...
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    Elizabeth Cromwell (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    play, The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause. William Fisk depicted Elizabeth and her children supposedly begging Oliver Cromwell to spare the king's...
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    Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey (category English people of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604))
    again on the Roundheads. Some were plundering, some chasing the Roundheads, and none could be got together. Lord Lindsey was shot through the thigh bone...
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    religion from the Roundheads, who supported Parliament, consisting often of Puritans (either Presbyterians or Independents). The best known of the cavalier...
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    Cnut (redirect from Cnut the Great)
    (/kəˈnjuːt/; Old Norse: Knútr Old Norse pronunciation: [ˈknuːtr]; c. 990 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King...
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    for The Independent newspaper, March 1996, quoted in Pimlott 2001, p. 578; O'Sullivan, Jack (5 March 1996), "Watch out, the Roundheads are back", The Independent...
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  • December 31 (category Days of the year)
    or Old Year’s Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day. It is the last day of the year; the following day is January 1, the first day of the...
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    Crowded House (redirect from The Mullanes)
    Earth in April 2009, at Finn's own Roundhead Studios. The album, Intriguer, was produced by Jim Scott who had worked on The Sun Came Out by Neil's 7 Worlds...
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    Bagley, John Joseph; Lewis, A. S. (1977). Lancashire at War: Cavaliers and Roundheads, 1642-51: a Series of Talks Broadcast from BBC Radio Blackburn. Dalesman...
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    fixing the image of the English Civil War as a quarrel of opposites, with dour Roundheads versus swashbuckling Cavaliers. An adaptation of the book appeared...
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    Levellers (redirect from The Levelers)
    English Dissenters Good Old Cause Green Ribbon Club A post restoration political club. The "Green Ribbon" was the badge of The Levellers in the English Civil...
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    Oliver Cromwell (redirect from Old Noll)
    Blair (2001). Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity (Penguin), ISBN 0-14-100694-3, pp. 53–59 "The Life and Eccentricities...
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  • XXXI); the struggle between the Cavaliers (characterised as "Wrong but Wromantic") and the Roundheads (characterised as "Right but Repulsive") in the English...
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    Sir William Spring, 1st Baronet (category Roundheads)
    correspondence with Oliver Cromwell, who notably wrote to Spring regarding the Good Old Cause. In the summer of 1643, Spring refused to recognise a troop of Ironsides...
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    Cromwell. In a postscript to the work Vane wrote the words "the good old cause", a coinage that became a rallying cry in the next few years for Vane's group...
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    Slovakia or the Netherlands. The tree requires a mild climate and adequate moisture for good growth and a good nut harvest. Its year-growth (but not the rest...
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    Ringo Starr (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
    marked the beginning of a nine-year partnership with Mark Hudson, who produced the album and, with his band the Roundheads, formed the core of the backing...
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    Derry (redirect from The weather in Derry)
    Londonderry, is the largest city in County Londonderry, the second-largest in Northern Ireland and the fifth-largest on the island of Ireland. The old walled city...
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    Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (category Roundheads)
    Parliamentarian army, also known as the Roundheads. However, he was unable and unwilling to score a decisive blow against the Royalist army of King Charles...
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    disband the New Model Army, but the New Model Army refused the order. Charles I then made the same deal that the Roundheads had made with the Scottish...
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    William Penn (Royal Navy officer) (category Roundheads)
    seaman and a good fighter. Like Pepys and the Earl of Sandwich, Penn was a "moderate" Roundhead who succeeded in maintaining his position at the Restoration...
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    Hair (redirect from Root of the hair)
    head in an act of defiance against the curls and ringlets of the king's men, which led to them being nicknamed Roundheads. Recent isotopic analysis of hair...
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    Pub names (redirect from The Bakers Arms)
    Battle of Worcester (1651) in the English Civil War, the defeated Prince Charles escaped the scene with the Roundheads on his tail. He managed to reach...
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  • appeared as the opening track of his album Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band Volume 2: Live from Montreux. Backed by the Roundheads, Starr played the song during...
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    John Hampden (category Roundheads)
    Bagley, John Joseph; Lewis, A. S. (1977). Lancashire at War: Cavaliers and Roundheads, 1642-51: a Series of Talks Broadcast from BBC Radio Blackburn. Dalesman...
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    proto-Royalist and proto-Roundhead, in the lead-up to the Civil War. Unsurprisingly, the Long Parliament put an end to ales, the last of which was held...
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  • Tories (British political party) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    King Charles I) or Roundhead (the supporters of the Long Parliament upon which the King had declared war). This action resulted from the Parliament not...
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    George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    against six Roundhead opponents, his back against an oak tree, which became the stuff of Cavalier legend. After another doomed combat at St Neots the Duke succeeded...
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    War of 1812 (redirect from The War of 1812)
    view "the desire for Canada did not cause the War of 1812" and that "The United States did not declare war because it wanted to obtain Canada, but the acquisition...
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    Monty Don (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    quietly away with no pain or suffering and is now buried in the garden with lots of tennis balls. Rest now old friend. See you in the sweet bye and bye"" (Tweet)...
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