Download or read book History of the English People, Volume 6 written by John Richard Green and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The breaking off of negotiations was followed on both sides by preparations for immediate war. Hampden, Pym, and Holles became the guiding spirits of a Committee of Public Safety which was created by Parliament as its administrative organ. On the twelfth of July 1642 the Houses ordered that an army should be raised 'for the defence of the king and the Parliament,' and appointed the Earl of Essex as its captain-general and the Earl of Bedford as its general of horse.'