Parliament and the English Revolution - A History of the English Civil War

The average english family was sick of it all. They were sick of high taxes, sick of confiscation, sick of soldiers. It was this, far more than any intense love of the king, that helped draw the lines of the second civil war. The first official fighting broke out in wales after parliament attempted to disband the local regiments. As cromwell rode off to try to put down this initial uprising, kent and essex both flared up. In early may, the scottish estates grandly voted hamilton an army 30 thousand strong - but just so you know he's never going to get anywhere near that number.