This volume of essays focuses on the largely neglected aspect of royalism during the English Civil Wars.

1. Introduction: rethinking Royalists and Royalism Jason McElligott and David L. Smith; 2. A lesson in loyalty: Charles I and the short parliament Mark A. Kishlansky; 3. The court and the emergence of a Royalist party Malcolm Smuts; 4. Varieties of Royalism Barbara Donagan; 5. Royalist reputations: the Cavalier ideal and the reality Ian Roy; 6. Counsel and cabal in the King's party, 1642-6 David Scott; 7. 'I doe desire to be rightly vnderstood': rhetorical strategies in the letters of Charles I Sarah Poynting; 8. Royalists and the new model army in 1647: circumstance, principle and compromise Rachel Foxley; 9. The Royalist origins of the separation powers Michael Mendle; 10. 'A No-King, or a New'. Royalists and the succession, 1648-9 Sean Kelsey; 11. The Royalism of Andrew Marvell Blair Worden.