Engagers
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The Engagers were a faction of the Scottish Covenanters, who made "The Engagement" with King Charles I in December 1647 while he was imprisoned in Carisbrooke Castle by the English Parliamentarians af
A Covenanter's helmet from the period in the Museum of Edinburgh
The Solemn League and Covenant agreed by English and Scottish Presbyterians in 1643
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose; Royalist commander in Scotland 1644–1645, but a Covenanter general 1638 to 1640
Marquess of Argyll, whose Kirk Party opposed the Engagement
Second English Civil War
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The Second English Civil War took place between February and August 1648 in England and Wales. It forms part of the series of conflicts known collectively as the 1639–1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms,
Engagers
…to defeat it. After dispersing Kirk Party dissidents at Mauchline Muir in June 1648, a poorly trained Engager army of 9,000 marched into England. The Second English Civil War was intended as a series of Royalist risings in England and Wales, with the Scots providing support. By the time Hamilton's army entered Lancashire in…
Charles I at his trial; defeat led to his execution in January 1649
Denzil Holles, a leader of the Presbyterian faction in Parliament
Carisbrooke Castle, on the Isle of Wight, where Charles was held in December 1648
Pontefract Castle in 1648, with civil war fortifications surrounding the old medieval ones.