The politics moved into a post-war phase with all the major factions in England and Scotland trying to reach an accommodation with King Charles I that would further their own particular interests.
[1][3][4] The third siege of Oxford ended with the signing of a treaty on 24 June; the keys of the city were formally handed over to Lord General Thomas Fairfax the next day.
[1] The close of the First Civil War left England and Scotland in the hands, potentially, of any one of the four parties or any combination of two or more that should prove strong enough to dominate the rest.
Thus he passed successively into the hands of the Scots, the English Parliament and the New Model Army, trying to reverse the verdict of arms by coquetting with each in turn.
Its opponents attempted to disband it, to send it on foreign service, to cut off its arrears of pay, with the result that it was exasperated beyond control, and, remembering not merely its grievances but also the principle for which it had fought, soon became the most powerful political party in the realm.