ABSTRACT
In Wales and the Marches, the rule of the three Royalist LieutenantGenerals had proved a direct contradiction of Charles’s expectations. Their armies had been defeated, and the communities in their care left demoralised, divided and hostile to the war. Left to their own devices, as in Worcestershire, the lesser local leaders had proved an equal disappointment. This failure becomes more significant when a brief summary is made of the fortunes of the other grandee generals.
