Reply #3: These categories don't apply to the 17th century

[Odin2005]

He was basically a dictator who took advantage of the situation. We also must remember that before the Enlightenment socioeconomic conflicts generally took a religious character. The Puritans were generally town-dwellers while the Royalists were generally the landed aristocracy and (IIRC) the peasantry. the English Civil War was basically a conflict between the dying feudal-agricultural society and the emerging commercial-capitalistic one.