Elizabeth Castle

This divided the island's population and it led to the foundation of a pro-parliamentarian faction known as Les Bien Affectionés, the Well Affected.

That forced royalist supporters gradually to withdraw to the Descartes strongholds of Elizabeth Castle and Montorgueil.

Cavaliers on neighbouring Jersey, you find, are similarly retreating to Castle Corneille.

So did this retreat or this division reduce the tensions on the islands?

I get the feeling that he was caught between his godly religious inclinations and his sense of duty to the crown.

But yeah, the tensions got worse because of George Carteret's arrival.

The people of St Helier, the principal town on Jersey, erected barricades and they just waited for the royalists from Elizabeth Castle to come and attack them.

Now, there was no immediate attack, but Sir Philip now openly declared for the king.