ABSTRACT
In early 1646, George Goring, as part of Henrietta Maria’s circle of English exiles in France, began to recruit troops for King Charles’s service, but the rapidly deteriorating military situation in England soon made those efforts futile. In the West Country, with Goring removed from the scene, the royalists’ situation became even more fractious, so that when the New Model renewed its offensive, the Prince’s Council had no choice but to remove the Prince of Wales from England. King Charles himself ended his attempt to maintain his authority by armed force when he surrendered himself to the Scots army in May 1646. Parliament and its allies had finally won the war, but exactly what did that mean in terms of government and religion?
