1643, Denham,
Cooper's Hill.
League and Covenant taken
by House.

1644. Scotch Army crosses Tweed.
1644, Milton,
Doctrine and
Discipline
Royalist defeat
at Marston of Divorce,
Areopagitica, On
Moor. Education.

1645. Laud beheaded. 1645, Waller,
Poems, lst edition.
Royalists crushed
at Naseby.
1646, Charles surrendered
to Scots.
1646, Crashaw,
Steps to the
Temple. Browne,
Vulgar Errors.

1647, Charles surrendered
by Scots. Army in
possession of London.
Charles' flight from
Hampton Court.