In May 1650, the Covenanters signed the Treaty of Breda, allying themselves with King Charles II against the English Parliamentarians, who had executed King Charles I the previous year.

This recalled a key historic document signed in 1643, by which the Scottish Covenanters at that time made a political and military alliance with the leaders of the English Parliamentarians during the First English Civil War.

In addition the Scots Covenanters, who had landed an army in the northeast of Ireland at Carrickfergus to counter the Catholic rebellion in that part of the country in early 1642, had subsequently put northeast Ireland on the side of the English Parliamentarians against the king ; and the relatively strong Protestant presence in and around Derry and Cork City was inclined to side with the Parliamentarians as well, and soon did so.

Hampden's death so early in the war was a severe blow to the Parliamentarians.

In early 1644, Cooper resigned all of his posts under the king, and traveled to Hurst Castle, the headquarters of the Parliamentarians.

Parliamentarians branding it an unnecessary luxury made the university's early existence precarious.

During the early part of the English Civil War Royalist forces from Portsmouth were involved in a number of skirmishes with Parliamentarians on the hill

The early months of 1643 saw a " crushing " defeat of the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Adwalton Moor, while the Battle of Roundway Down left Parliament without an effective army in the west of England, the lack of which allowed the Royalists under Prince Rupert to storm Bristol with the Western Army and Oxford Army.

In the early months of 1644, the Parliamentarians had won victories at Cheriton in the south of England and Nantwich in the north west.

During the early part of 1641, some Scots and Parliamentarians even proposed invading Ireland and subduing organized Catholicism there, to ensure that no royalist Irish Catholic army would land in England or Scotland.

In early 1649 the Confederates allied with the English Royalists, who had been defeated by the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War.

Santry was the scene of violence in the early months of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, when a punitive expedition of Parliamentarians led by Sir Charles Coote mistakenly massacred a group of local farm labourers, who were sleeping in the fields there.

Both armies spent the night in the field before Essex withdrew the Parliamentarians to Warwick the next day.

In fact Charles was barely away, but the complacency such reports induced meant that one contemporary source stated the Parliamentarians were marching barely a day, allowing the Royalists to quickly catch up.

On the day of the July 1997 vote, a number of people in wheelchairs from these groups demonstrated outside the main hall in Strasbourg, chanting the pharmaceutical industry's slogan, " No Patents, No Cure " in an emotional appeal to Parliamentarians to vote for the Directive.

When the English Civil War broke out Feilding, unlike the other members of his family, ranged himself among the Parliamentarians, led a regiment of horse at the battle of Edgehill ( his father being on the other side that day ), and, having become Earl of Denbigh in April 1643, was made commander-in-chief of the Parliamentary army in Warwickshire and the neighbouring counties, and lord-lieutenant of Warwickshire.

As Charles shared his father's position on the power of the crown ( James had described kings as " little Gods on Earth ", chosen by God to rule in accordance with the doctrine of the " Divine Right of Kings "), the suspicions of the Parliamentarians had some justification.

In two decisive engagements — the Battle of Naseby on 14 June and the Battle of Langport on 10 July — the Parliamentarians effectively destroyed Charles ' armies.

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* July 2 – English Civil War – Battle of Marston Moor: The Parliamentarians crush the Royalists, ending Charles I's hold on the north of England.

The restrictions against royalist candidates and voters were widely ignored, and the elections resulted in a House of Commons which was fairly evenly divided on political grounds between Royalists and Parliamentarians and on religious grounds between Anglicans and Presbyterians.

Eventually, with many buildings destroyed in the town, the castle and its valuable contents were surrendered to the Parliamentarians on 21 July 1645.

Initially, the siege was a rather loose blockade as the Scots and Parliamentarians concentrated on capturing smaller Royalist garrisons which threatened their communications with Hull.

The assault started on the morning of 3 September and initially the initiative lay with the Parliamentarians.

This stubborn resistance on the west bank of the Severn north of the Teme was becoming a serious problem for the Parliamentarians, so Cromwell led Parliamentary reinforcements from the eastern side of the town over the Severn pontoon bridge to aid Fleetwood.

Parliamentarians perform an important role in many meetings, including counseling organizations on parliamentary law, holding elections, or writing amendments to the constitution and bylaws of an organization.

Parliamentarians wanted to make a deal with the King on their terms but they did not want to commit treason.

An attack led by Sir Thomas Fairfax on 20 May 1643 captured the town for the Parliamentarians.

During the English Civil War, between Royalists and Parliamentarians, the Battle of Marston Moor was fought on land to the west of York.

The townsfolk supported the Parliamentarians but gentry and clergy were for the old order, so that when Charles I of England was executed in 1649 the minister, Alexander Gregory, wrote on behalf of the gentry in the parish register, " O England what did ' st thou do, the 30th of this month ".

They captured at least four of the Parliamentarians ' cannon and turned them on the infantry.

The Battle of Nantwich was fought during the First English Civil War, between the Parliamentarians and Royalists, northwest of the town of Nantwich in Cheshire on 25 January 1644.

This was a lucky escape for him, as the Parliamentarians were not inclined towards mercy and executed a number of prominent Royalists including the Duke of Hamilton, Langdale's name was included on Parliament's list of Royalists excluded from pardon for their roles in the wars.

He afterwards, on the ruin of the royal cause, afforded an asylum to the Prince of Wales ( Charles Stuart ) and other refugees of distinction within his government of Jersey where he served as Bailiff ( 1643 – 1651 ), and defended the island against the Parliamentarians, Elizabeth Castle being the last fortress that lowered the royal banner.

The town built walls for protection, but these were torn down by the Parliamentarians after they took the town after a brief siege on 22 June 1644, leaving only the Newgate Pillar visible today.

The Parliamentarians had captured Stafford on 15 May 1643, following a brief siege, but some of its garrison escaped and held Stafford Castle, with the hope of using it as a bridgehead to recapture the town.

As the civil wars developed, the English Parliamentarians appealed to the Scots Covenanters for military aid against the King.

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* April 23 ( Saint George's Day ) – English Civil War: One hundred and fifty Irish soldiers bound for service with King Charles I of England are captured at sea by Parliamentarians and killed at Pembroke in Wales.

Currently in its eleventh edition and published under the name Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised ( and often referred to using the initialism RONR ) it is the most widely used parliamentary authority in the United States, according to the National Association of Parliamentarians, a professional association of approximately 4, 000 members which provides education and accreditation certifications for parliamentarians.

He was a founder of the Canadian wing of Parliamentarians for East Timor.

This Act of Free Choice has been strongly criticised by the international community, including the group International Parliamentarians for West Papua, which has termed the act " the act of no choice ".

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It gave the Parliamentarians an edge over the Royalists for the first time.

But in Cornwall there was practically no support for the Parliamentarians at all.

Here, support for the Parliamentarians was general.

Williams is currently a member of the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation, established in October 2009.

The town played a large part in the English Civil War when it became a stronghold for the Parliamentarian forces, like many market towns a nursing-ground of Puritan sentiment and in 1642 the Battle of Aylesbury was fought and won by the Parliamentarians.

Although James Hopkins had died in 1634, when William Dowsing, commissioned in 1643 by the Parliamentarians in Manchester " for the destruction of monuments of idolatry and superstition ", visited the parish in 1645 he noted that " there was nothing to reform ".

Beckett is currently a member of the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation, established in October 2009.

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There is evidence of skirmishes in the area and Influential Parliamentarians such as John Pym were headquartered along with large numbers of troops for a period.

He is also a member of the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation, established in October 2009.