On the 5th of May, 1646, Charles I, by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland and Ireland, surrendered himself to the Scots army besieging Newark, effectively bringing an end to the First English Civil War.
However, the country is more divided than ever, and Charles’s reluctance to negotiate with his captors is not helping. Some sort of settlement must be reached before the country dissolves completely into chaos - what form that takes will be decided in a high-stakes game of negotiation and realpolitik.
