Executioner lifted up the chopped head demonstrating it to the excited crowd. King of England Charles I ended up his life on the block; the hoi polloi rejoiced. Lots of people realized they witnessed the beginning of a new era that would drastically change the perception of the English and split the country into two camps, i.e. royalists and the Parliament adherents. Noblemen were preparing a blow in return, for the death of king couldn't go unavenged. They anticipated their victory with pleasure. Soon they would face their enemies and saturate their blades with blood of the rebels. The Parliamentary army, their enemy, were not professional soldiers. They were said to consist of decrepit footmen, tavern-keepers and the rabble. The outcome of the war seemed predetermined. But everything happened the other way round. Parliamentarian troops were headed by Oliver Cromwell who managed to create a new army. He didn't simply gather armed people and trained them, he created the very monolith to make the old military system of England shatter against and have a new military system, able to conquer other nations and crush any enemy, emerge on its ruins.

The government of Tudors cherished the policy of capitalism development. But a number of mistakes made by Charles I led to the inevitable crush of old customs in the gory battles of civil war.

Uprising in Scotland in 1637-1638 and subsequent war, where Scottish nobles and bourgeoisie stood for their independence, turned out an impetus for another fratricidal war. Situation got even more aggravated due to national insurrection in Ireland, that started in October, 1641. King of England Charles I was forced to leave London.

August 22, 1642 in Nottingham solemnly the King's colour was raised. That meant war declared on Parliament under the pretence of suppressing "the rebellion of earl of Essex" who commanded the Parliamentary army.