The English colonists had already been stripped of all political power.

Nothing remained but to strip them of their property; and this last outrage was deferred only till the cooperation of an Irish Parliament should have been secured.

[296] From Cheshire the King turned southward, and, in the full belief that the Fellows of Magdalene College, however mutinous they might be, would not dare to disobey a command uttered by his own lips, directed his course towards Oxford.

By the way he made some little excursions to places which peculiarly interested him, as a King, a brother, and a son.
He visited the hospitable roof of Boscobel and the remains of the oak so conspicuous in the history of his house.

He rode over the field of Edgehill, where the Cavaliers first crossed swords with the soldiers of the Parliament.