The Treaty of Uxbridge was a significant but abortive negotiation in early 1645 to try to end the First English Civil War.
[2] The conditions were very assertive, with Presbyterianism to be established south of the border, and Parliament to take control of all military matters.
His incentive to compromise was thereby reduced, but the same was true of the Parliamentary side, with its growing confidence in the New Model Army.
62, p. 286), are conceived in a far more reasonable spirit: The King's offer afforded at least an admirable basis for negotiation.
The King offered only to rein in the powers of the episcopate in religious matters, and to give Parliament some control of the militia, limited to a time period of three years.