From 1637 to 1660, English and Scottish history were more closely interwoven than at any other time between 1603 and the Treaty of the Union in 1707. During these crucial decades the relationship between Scotland and England underwent profound changes. Scotland became a conquered province of England in 1651 and, although later admitted to a full parliamentary union with England, she remained under military occupation until 1660. The conquest of Scotland by the English army was the culmination of a long period of hostility between the two countries whose roots lie entangled in the years of political and military alliance of the early 1640s.
This book examines the links between the two states during the Interregnum and shows how the intitial radical, coercive measures designed to undermine the power of the Scottish ruling class in church and state were modified due to the royalist rebellion leading to a more conservative conciliatory approach to the tasks of government.
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