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Clubmen were bands of vigilantes during the English Civil War (1642–1651) who tried to protect their localities against the worst excesses of armies of both sides. The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians (known as Roundheads) and Royalists (known as Cavaliers) from 1642 until 1651. ... Events January 4 - Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. ... // Events January 1 - Charles II crowned King of Scotland in Scone. ...


Initially Clubmen gatherings came together spontaneously as a response to the actions of soldiers in their localities. But as the war went on Clubmen in some areas were organised by the local gentry and were a force which both sides in the war had to take into account when planning a campaign and garrisoning some areas.


See also

The Bunbury Agreement of December 23, 1642 was drawn up by some of the gentlemen of the county of Cheshire to keep Cheshire neutral during the English Civil War. ...

Further reading

  • Worcestershire County Council:
  • Historic Environment and Archaeology Service:
  • The Civil War in Worcestershire
  • The Worcestershire Clubmen (dead as of November 2006)
  • The Woodbury Declaration of the Worcestershire Clubmen 5 March 1645

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Clubman Uprisings 1644-6 (578 words)
The Clubmen were local associations of war-weary countrymen who took up arms and banded together in an attempt to resist both Royalists and Parliamentarians and to keep the war out of their regions.
In March 1645, 1,000 Clubmen gathered on Woodbury Hill in Worcestershire under the leadership of Charles Nott.
In a separate context, Clubmen was also the name given to the lightly-armed, irregular troops that augmented the Fairfaxes' Parliamentarian army during their campaign against the Yorkshire Royalists in 1643.
The Clubmen of Dorset (452 words)
The Clubmen were countryfolk who resented the 'un-natural' Civil War and had grown weary of the battles between Cavaliers and Roundheads, and the depredations of the soldiers of both sides which damaged their lands and ruined the crops.
Although they came from all the surrounding counties the Clubmen were particularly strong in Dorset and after having been harried by Oliver Cromwell some 2-4000 of them became entrenched on Hambledon Hill in August 1645.
At the end of the battle when Cromwell sent 50 dragoons to drag the remaining Clubmen from the hill, it was probably as comic a battle as the reenactment by villagers carried out when Princess Marie Louise visited Shroton in 1951.
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