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Question: If you were alive at that time, which side in this struggle would you have fought for?
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« on: April 12, 2006, 10:23:40 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War
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« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2006, 10:25:51 PM »
Both sides were crap. Without hindsight, probably the Parliamentarians, but that's only without hindsight.
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« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2006, 10:42:43 PM »
 Parliamentarians
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« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2006, 12:38:33 AM »
Royalists I suppose.
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« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2006, 04:37:03 AM »
I'm a Non-Conformist. Guess.
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« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2006, 05:45:32 AM »
Royalists

A few years ago someone told me that they had read that an avowed young Marxist had stated that had he been around at the time of the English Civil War, he would have fought for his King!

I can understand why many contemporary far leftists would support the King against the encroaching power of the bourgeoise

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« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2006, 05:56:09 AM »
Take a look at my signature. Question answered.
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« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2006, 06:01:12 AM »

I'm a Presbyterian. Guess.
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« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2006, 07:56:55 AM »

Hey, we'd be on the same side for a change Grin
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« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2006, 08:28:53 AM »

You and about 70% of America Cheesy
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« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2006, 08:31:48 AM »

Don't know where you are getting your facts, but 70% of America is NOT Presbyterian.
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« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2006, 08:35:06 AM »
Whoops. I deleted my post for some reason.

Royalist.
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« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2006, 09:20:54 AM »
Quote from: KEmperor on April 13, 2006, 08:31:48 AM

Don't know where you are getting your facts, but 70% of America is NOT Presbyterian.
Any non-Episcopalian Protestant able to count to one would support Parliament...
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« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2006, 10:00:51 AM »
Parlimentarians, clearly. It was Cromwell who allowed Jews to return to England, after all. If Charles won I couldn't even live in England.
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« Reply #14 on: April 13, 2006, 10:28:15 AM »
I don't give a da**. Probably neither side... if forced to choose, Parliamentarians, I guess.
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« Reply #15 on: April 13, 2006, 01:49:21 PM »
Parliamentarians...and given my mom's ancestral side was likely originally English Puritan, strongly so. Cool
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« Reply #16 on: April 13, 2006, 05:29:56 PM »
Considering that I'm of English Catholic stock I would almost certainly have supported the Royalists back then considering that Cromwell would have made life for people like myself pretty bad.
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« Reply #17 on: April 13, 2006, 05:30:55 PM »
Quote from: Justice Colin Wixted on April 13, 2006, 05:29:56 PM
Considering that I'm of English Catholic stock

Seriously? That's very unusual... North Lancashire or the Marches?
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« Reply #18 on: April 13, 2006, 05:35:11 PM »
Quote from: Al the Sleepy Bear on April 13, 2006, 05:30:55 PM
Quote from: Justice Colin Wixted on April 13, 2006, 05:29:56 PM
Considering that I'm of English Catholic stock

Seriously? That's very unusual... North Lancashire or the Marches?

I believe so though I'm not completely sure. According to records the Wixted's are originally from the area around Nantwich in Cheshire. I'm not very familiar with English religious geography and I was going to ask you about the history of the area.
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« Reply #19 on: April 13, 2006, 05:50:03 PM »
Royalist if only because "obedience to just rule" seems better to me than "nothing done by a bunch of squabbling bureaucrats"
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« Reply #20 on: April 13, 2006, 08:31:58 PM »
Royalists obviously.
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« Reply #21 on: April 13, 2006, 10:27:15 PM »
Were the Royalists pro-alcohol? If so, I'd definately go with them. F**king teetoaler Puritans...
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« Reply #22 on: April 14, 2006, 08:51:03 AM »
As to your question BRTD, while neither side ever attempted prohibition, both sides did attempt to regulate and tax alcohol sales ... quite futilely in fact.
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« Reply #23 on: April 14, 2006, 10:03:24 AM »
I heard Cromwell banned alcohol, theater and dancing when he took over.
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« Reply #24 on: April 14, 2006, 12:29:22 PM »
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