ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. Once the last spark of armed Royalist resistance had been quenched there was nothing for the ordinary Cavalier soldier to do but go home. Although it may be the soldier's greatest desire to get out of uniform and away from hardship, discipline and bloodshed, to his astonishment and dismay he finds coming out as big a break as going in. Unlike the men of the regular regiments who went wherever the war took them, the trained bands were meant for purely parochial defence and were lent out on a limited time basis. After every war there are limbless and blind ex-soldiers in most towns. In the time of Elizabeth I the state began to realise that it had a certain responsibility for the welfare of such people, and a statute was passed enacting that parishes could be rated for the support of maimed soldiers and mariners.
