Treaty of Uxbridge
Proposed by the allied English Parliamentarians and Scottish Covenanters during the English Civil War that sought a negotiated settlement with Charles 1. Relations between the allies had deteriorated after it became apparent that the Scottish alliance was not going to bring about a swift military victory. The Covenanters began to associate with the "Peace Party" in the Westminster Parliament, which sought to end the war through a negotiated settlement with the King. Towards the end of 1644, the Covenanters insisted upon offering peace proposals, with the aim of strengthening the union between the Scottish and English parliaments and enforcing a Presbyterian religious settlement in both kingdoms.
The principal allied demands were made on January 29th 1645
- The Solemn League and Covenant was to be sworn by the King and imposed upon all his subjects.
- Episcopacy was to be abolished in England and Ireland as well as Scotland.
- The parliaments of England and Scotland were to control the appointment of commanders of armed forces in their respective nations.
- Commissioners from the English and Scottish parliaments were to co-operate in directing the war in Ireland.
- Declarations of war or peace with foreign states would require the joint consent of both parliaments.
From the outset, there was little hope of King Charles agreeing to these terms. Apart from his uncompromising devotion to Episcopacy he believed that an outright Royalist victory was still within his grasp and regarded the divisions between the Scots and the Parliamentarian factions as signs of weakness. The failure of the Uxbridge Treaty left the Covenanters and the moderates in the Westminster Parliament no option but to support the continuation of the war.
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| Act Abolishing the Office of King | 17 March 1649 |
| Army Remonstrance | 18 November 1648 |
| Civil War - Regicide | 6 December 1648 30 January 1649 |
| Civil War - Restoration | 4 April 1660 |
| Commissions of Array | 1 June 1642 |
| Execution of Archbishop William Laud | 10 January 1645 |
| Execution of Charles I | 30 January 1649 |
| Execution of Thomas Wentworth | 12 May 1641 |
| Four Bills | 24 December 1647 |
| Grand Remonstrance | 22 November 1641 |
| Heads of Proposals | 22 September 1647 |
| Instrument of Government | 16 December 1653 |
| Militia Ordinance | 7 December 1641 |
| Naseby | 14 June 1645 |
| National Covenant | 27 February 1638 |
| Newcastle Proposals | 1 July 1646 |
| Nineteen Propositions | 1 June 1642 |
| Petition of Right | 7 June 1628 |
| Petition of the Leveller Women | 11 September 1649 |
| Putney Debates | 1 October 1647 |
| Representation of the Army | 5 June 1647 |
| Root and Branch Petition | 11 December 1640 |
| Saffron Walden | 1 May 1647 |
| Scottish Prayer Book | 23 July 1637 |
| Short Parliament | 13 April 1640 |
| The Bishop's War | 1 January 1639 |
| The Five Members | 4 January 1642 |
| The Second Civil War | 22 February 1648 |
| The Self Denying Ordinance | 19 December 1644 |
| Treaty of Uxbridge | 29 January 1645 |
