... Model Army" (Christopher Hill). It is important, I feel, to look at the causes of the English Civil Wars because they were, after all, what paved the way for the Revolution. Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, who lived through the war, believed that constitutional issues caused it and issues concerning religion, while James Harrington, who also lived through the war believed that it was a result of social and economic problems. Clarendon's interpretation is the most probable and the most convincing. Constitutional disagreements were, very much so, apparent between King and Parliament and the growing political influence of the New Model Army. This later led to a full-scale Revolution, temporarily wiping out the British Monarchy. In 1642 at the beginning of the first Civil War, "the old political system had broken down and no new system was visualised so the country drifted to Civil War" claims Peter Gaunt. But by 1645 at ...

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