Quote from: Westmarcher on 20 August 2015, 12:08:02 PM
Why was Evans wearing a teddy? 

So ....... when they said Rupert took his 'boy' for frequent walks, he was actually only taking his dog for a walk?  Whew! That's a relief! 

To avoid confusion, Rupert spelt his dog's name 'Boye'.

Quote from: Fenton on 20 August 2015, 11:38:37 AM
Phil. You sir are a rattlepatte!

Nicest thing anyone's said to me today. 

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Subedai on 20 August 2015, 02:28:33 PM
To avoid confusion, Rupert spelt his dog's name 'Boye'.

Probably also spelled "sex" with one "f".

I cannot understand why anybody would side with the moneygrabbing merchant bankers parliament!
I still believe that parliament should be dissolved...preferably by a company of Gurkhas and a tank.   

Quote from: fsn on 20 August 2015, 04:15:37 PM
Probably also spelled "sex" with one "f".

Apparently, Rupert alfo had a fimian friend af well af a canine one.


WTS. This is getting complicated. So, was a saker actually a faker like a Quaker in the ACW? 


Footnote: Quakers were pacifists who avoided war and violence. The term Quaker gun, is kind of an oxymoron and is used to describe logs, stovepipes and other devices that were painted to look like cannons to deceive the enemy into thinking an army had more artillery than it really did.

Quote from: cameronian on 20 August 2015, 11:27:51 AM
Royalist, anything is better than Presbyterianism.

Strange coming from someone with that screen name   Long live the Republic!

Parliament of course. 'A hereditary ruler is as absurd an idea as a hereditary mathematician. '

As for the religious side, very few of the parliamentarians were puritans but with the rise of Cromwell, they found themselves in positions of influence.

"Babel's garments we've rejected,
And our fellowship is o'er,
Babylon is fallen to rise no more."

Parliament to save us from tyranny!

I find it incredible, in this day of information technology, that so many commoners unwashed non-wargaming ...er...folk have a vague perception of the ECW as: parliament standing up for 'the people' against 'fox hunting toffs with feathers in their hats'.    
So sad that it was the other way around but the bad guys won.      

In fairness, it's a pretty confusing war if you try to get any ideological stencil to fit the outlines.

I'm with the Levellers on this one. Doesn't matter what name they go under, the vastly monied and privileged seem intent on turning the clock back and ensuring that their small number of progeny keep the rest of us under the thumb. Jeremy gets my vote.

The Levellers? That bunch of nutters who thought that giving the vote to common people was a good idea!

No wonder that upstanding democrat and man of the people, Oliver Cromwell, gently persuaded them to see the error of their ways....by shooting a bunch of them!

Royalists for me, at least claiming Divine Right of Kings is being honest about ones intentions, unlike the so-called "Republic".

Parliament for me.  I would like to get rid of the Monarchy and Cromwell did just that.

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 21 August 2015, 09:15:46 AM
Parliament for me.  I would like to get rid of the Monarchy and Cromwell did just that.

Well said that man 

Cheers
Ian

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 21 August 2015, 09:15:46 AM
Parliament for me.  I would like to get rid of the Monarchy and Cromwell did just that.

pft, all he did was change the term the ruler was described by for a season.

Protector or King there's little difference.