[5] In June 1642 it appeared that Lincolnshire would support the Parliamentary cause when at the instigation of Francis, Lord Willoughby they agreed to implement the Militia Ordinance.
[6] Sir Charles, was appointed by the King to the Commission of Array for Lincolnshire (to organise the recruitment for the nascent Royalist army).
[8] On 6 May 1644 Sir Charles was taken prisoner by the Eastern Association when they assaulted captured Lincoln,[9] but after a short imprisonment was exchanged and at the end of the First Civil War was governor of Newark.
[2] During the interregnum Dallison was thought by the authorities to be in favour of a Roman Catholic alliance to restore Charles II to the throne, however P. R. Newman states although "he came from a partially recusant background, he writings imply impatience with religion in whatever form".
Dallison justly stated: being a grandson of Judge Dallison, of the King's Bench, a younger brother and lawyer, he sacrificed the benefit of his profession for 18 years, spent much money, and became surety in large sums for the late King, for whom he raised forces in the wars; he was often imprisoned; was one of the 39 excepted from pardon; lost £1,000 in money, and £400 a year land, and compounded for his estate at half its value.
[14] In 1648, while exiled in France, Sir Charles Dallison published The Royalist defence; Vindicating the King's Proceedings in the late Warre made against him.
In 1644 Robert was granted a baronetcy (see Dallison baronets), and along with his father were found by Parliament to be Royalist delinquents they their estates sequestrated and compounded for the sum of £1,300.
Dallison, a Lancashire Gentleman, of great service in Prince Ruperts Brigade, whose Loyalty cost him his life at Nazeby, and £12000 in his Estate, being one of those noble persons, whose too much courage (as Buchanan' saith in all defeats of the Scots) was the reason they were conquered; and their pursuing their Enemies too far, the cause of their being beaten by them.