See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM See also:

• WALLER, EDMUND (1606-1687)
• WALLER, LEWIS (186o- )
• SIR WILLIAM WALLER (c. 1597-1668)

WALLER (c. 1597-1668)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English soldier, was the son of See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• WALLER, EDMUND (1606-1687)
• WALLER, LEWIS (186o- )
• WALLER, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1597-1668)

Waller, See also:

• LIEUTENANT

lieutenant of See also:

• DOVER
• DOVER, GEORGE JAMES WELBORE
• DOVER, HENRY JERMYN, EARL OF (c. 1636-1708)
• DOVER, ROBERT (1575-1641)

Dover, and was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born about 1597 . He was educated at Magdalen See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall, See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, and served in the Venetian See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army and in the See also:

• THIRTY

Thirty Years' See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War . He was knighted in 1622 after taking See also:

• PART

part in See also:

• VERE
• VERE, SIR FRANCIS (1560-1609)

Vere's expedition to the See also:

• PALATINATE (Ger. Pfalz)

Palatinate . Little is known of his See also:

• LIFE

life up to 1640, when he became member of See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament for See also:

• ANDOVER

Andover . Being a strict Presbyterian by See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion, and a member of the opposition in politics, he naturally threw himself with the greatest ardour into the cause of the parliament when the See also:

• CIVIL

Civil War See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke out in 1642 . He was at once made a See also:

• COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

colonel, and conducted to a speedy and successful issue the See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of See also:

• PORTSMOUTH
• PORTSMOUTH, EARLS OF
• PORTSMOUTH, LOUISE DE

Portsmouth in See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September; and later in the See also:

• YEAR

year captured See also:

• FARNHAM

Farnham, See also:

• WINCHESTER
• WINCHESTER, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

Winchester and other places in the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west . At the beginning of 1643 Waller was made a See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

major-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general and placed in See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of operations in the region of See also:

• GLOUCESTER
• GLOUCESTER (abbreviated as pronounced Glo'ster)
• GLOUCESTER, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• GLOUCESTER, GILBERT DE CLARE, EARL OF (1243-1295)
• GLOUCESTER, RICHARD DE CLARE, EARL OF (1222-1262)
• GLOUCESTER, ROBERT, EARL OF (d. 1147)
• GLOUCESTER, THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK, DUKE

Gloucester and See also:

• BRISTOL
• BRISTOL, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF
• BRISTOL, GEORGE DIGBY, 2ND EARL OF1 (1612-1677)
• BRISTOL, JOHN DIGBY, 1ST EARL OF 6 (1580-1653)

Bristol (see See also:

• GREAT

GREAT See also:

• REBELLION

REBELLION), and he concluded his first See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign with a victory at Highnam and the See also:

• CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture of See also:

• HEREFORD

Hereford . He was then called upon to oppose theadvance of Sir See also:

• RALPH (d. 1122)

Ralph See also:

• HOPTON, RALPH HOPTON, BARON (1598-1652)

Hopton and the Royalist western army, and though more or less defeated in the hard-fought See also:

• BATTLE

battle of Lansdown (near See also:

• BATH
• BATH, THOMAS THYNNE
• BATH, WILLIAM

Bath) he shut up the enemy in See also:

• DEVIZES

Devizes . How-ever, Hopton and a relieving force from Oxford inflicted a crushing defeat upon Waller's army at Roundway Down . Hopton was Waller's intimate See also:

• PERSONAL

personal friend, and some See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence passed between the opposing generals, a See also:

• QUOTATION

quotation from which (See also:

• GARDINER
• GARDINER, JAMES (1688-1745)
• GARDINER, SAMUEL RAWSON (1829–1902)
• GARDINER, STEPHEN (c. 1493–1555)

Gardiner, Civil War, i . 168) is given as illustrative of " the See also:

• TEMPER (from Lat. temperare, to mingle or compound in due proportion, to qualify, rule, regulate, to be moderate, formed from tempos, time, fit or due season)

temper in which the nobler See also:

• SPIRITS

spirits on either See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side had entered on the war." " That great See also:

• GOD

God," wrote Waller, " who is the searcher of my See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart knows with what a sad sense I go upon this service, and with what a perfect hatred I detest this war without an enemy; but I look upon it as sent from God . . .

God .. . in his See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time send us the blessing of See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace and in the meantime assist us to receive it ! We are both upon the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage and must See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act such parts as are assigned us in this tragedy, let us do it in a way of See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour and without personal animosities." The destruction of his army at Roundway scarcely affected Waller's military reputation, many reproaching See also:

• ESSEX
• ESSEX, ARTHUR CAPEL
• ESSEX, EARLS OF
• ESSEX, KINGDOM OF
• ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX
• ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX, 2ND2 EARL OF (1566-1601)
• ESSEX, WALTER DEVEREUX, IST2 EARL OF (1541–1576)

Essex, the See also:

• COMMANDER

commander-in-See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief, for allowing the Oxford royalists to turn against Waller . The Londoners, who had called him " See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William the Conqueror," recognized his skill and See also:

• ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy so far as willingly to raise a new army for him in See also:

• LONDON

London and the south-eastern counties . But from this point Waller's career is one of See also:

• GRADUAL (Med. Lat. gradualis, of or belonging to steps or degrees; gradus, step)

gradual disillusionment . His new forces were distinctively See also:

• LOCAL

local, and, like other local troops on both sides, resented See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• MARCHES, THE (It. Le Marche)

marches and hard See also:

• WORK

work far from. their own counties . Only at moments of imminent danger could they be trusted to do their See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty . At See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary times, e.g. at the first siege of Basing See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House, they mutinied in See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face of the enemy, deserted and even marched See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home in formed bodies under their own See also:

• OFFICERS

officers, and their gallantry at See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical moments, such as the surprise of See also:

• ALTON

Alton in See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1643 and the recapture of See also:

• ARUNDEL
• ARUNDEL, EARLDOM OF
• ARUNDEL, EARLS OF
• ARUNDEL, THOMAS (1353-1414)

Arundel in See also:

• JANUARY

January 1644, but partially redeemed their general See also:

• BAD, BCD

bad conduct . Waller himself, a general of the highest skill,—" the best shifter and chooser of ground " on either side,—was, like See also:

• TURENNE, HENRI DE LA TOUR

Turenne, at his best at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of a small and highly-disciplined See also:

• REGULAR

regular army . Only a See also:

• CONDE
• CONDE, LOUIS DE BOURBON, PRINCE
• CONDE, LOUIS II
• CONDE, PRINCES OF

Conde or a See also:

• CROMWELL, HENRY (1628-1674)
• CROMWELL, OLIVER (1599-1658)
• CROMWELL, RICHARD (1626–1712)
• CROMWELL, THOMAS, EARL OF

Cromwell could have enforced discipline and soldierly spirit in such men, See also:

• ILL

ill-clad and unpaid as they were, and the only military quality lacking to Waller was precisely this supreme personal See also:

• MAGNETISM
• MAGNETISM, TERRESTRIAL

magnetism . In these circumstances affairs went from bad to worse . Though successful in stopping Hopton's second advance at Cheriton (See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1644), he was defeated by See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles I. in the war of manoeuvre which ended with the See also:

• ACTION

action of Cropredy See also:

• BRIDGE

Bridge (See also:

• JUNE

June), and in the second battle of See also:

• NEWBURY

Newbury in See also:

• OCTOBER

October his See also:

• TACTICAL

tactical success at the See also:

• VILLAGE

village of Speen led to nothing .

His last expeditions were made into the west for the See also:

• RELIEF

relief of See also:

• TAUNTON
• TAUNTON, HENRY LABOUCHERE, BARON (1798–1869)

Taunton, and in these he had Cromwell as his lieutenant-general . By this time the confusion in all the armed forces of the parliament had reached such a height that reforms were at last taken in See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand . The See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• SUGGESTION

suggestion of the celebrated " New See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

Model " army came from Waller, who wrote to the See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

Committee of Both Kingdoms (See also:

• JULY

July 2, 1644) to the effect that " an army compounded of these men will never go through with your service; and till you have an army merely your own that you may command, it is in a manner impossible to do anything of importance." Simultaneously with the New Model came the Self-Denying See also:

• ORDINANCE
• ORDINANCE, or ORDONNANCE

Ordinance, which required all members of parliament to See also:

• LAY

lay down their military commands . Waller did so gladly—the more as he had already requested to be relieved—and his active military career came to an end . But the events of 1643-1644 had done more than embitter him . They had combined with his See also:

• PRESBYTERIANISM

Presbyterianism to make him intolerant of all that he conceived to be See also:

• LICENCE (through the French from Lat. licentia, licere, to be lawful)

licence in See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state or army, and after he ceased to exercise command himself he was constantly engaged, in and out of parliament, in opposing the See also:

• INDEPENDENTS

Independents and the army politicians, and supporting the cause of his own religious See also:

• SYSTEM

system, and later that of the Presbyterian-Royalist opposition to the See also:

• COMMONWEALTH

Commonwealth and See also:

• PROTECTORATE

Protectorate regime . He was several times imprisoned between 1648 and 1659 . In the latter year he was active in promoting the final negotiations for the restoration of Charles II. and reappeared in the House of See also:

• COMMONS

Commons . He sat in the See also:

• CONVENTION (Lat. conventio, an assembly or agreement, from convenire, to come together)
• CONVENTION, THE NATIONAL

Convention Parliament, but soon retired from See also:

• POLITICAL

political life, and he died on the 19th of September 1668 . See See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, ed . See also:

• BLISS, CORNELIUS NEWTON (1833– )

Bliss, iii . 8r2; and two partial autobiographies, " Recollections by General Sir William Waller " (printed in The See also:

• POETRY

Poetry of See also:

• ANNA
• ANNA (Hindustani ana)
• ANNA, BALDASARRE

Anna See also:

• MATILDA (1046-1115)
• MATILDA (1102-1164)

Matilda, 1788), and Vindication of the See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

Character, &c .

(1797) . Sir William Waller's See also:

• COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and familiar abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
• COUSIN, JEAN (1500-1590)
• COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

cousin, SIR HARDRESS WALLER (C . 1604—1666) was also a parliamentarian of See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note . Knighted by Charles I. in 1629, he gained military experience in. serving against the rebels in See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland; then from 1645 to the conclusion of the Civil War he was in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England commanding a See also:

• REGIMENT (from Late Latin regimentum, rule, regere, to rule, govern, direct)

regiment in the new model army . He was Colonel See also:

• PRIDE, THOMAS (d. 1658)

Pride's chief assistant when the latter " purged " the House of Commons in 1648, and he was one of the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king's See also:

• JUDGES, THE BOOK OF

judges and one of those who signed the See also:

• DEATH

death See also:

• WARRANT (Med. Lat. warantum; O. Fr. garant, warant, derived from O.H.G. root represented in modern German bygewdhren)

warrant . During the next few years Waller served in Ireland, finally returning to England in 166o . After the restoration he fled to See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, but soon surrendered himself to the authorities as a See also:

• REGICIDE (Lat. rex, a king, and caedere, to kill)

regicide, his life being spared_ owing to the efforts of his See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends . He was, however, kept in See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison and was still a See also:

• CAPTIVE (from Lat. capere, to take)

captive when he died . See M . See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

Noble, Lives of the Regicides (1798) .