In January 1643, a dispute over the election of the Lord Mayor of York led to the assertation of the authority of the Royalist military governor through armed force at the instigation of the King’s Lord-General in the North, the Earl of Newcastle. This paper takes a micro-historical approach to this event; analysing the mechanics of the coup, particularly the exchange of letters between the civic corporation and Newcastle, the state of the York city charter in the 1640 s, the legal arguments used by both the corporation and the Royalists and the after-effects of the incident on relations between the civic and military governments of the city. However, the primary focus of the article is on how Royalist administration functioned on the local level. Owing to the destruction of Royalist records following their defeat in 1644-45, Royalist administration occupies a limited position in the historiography of the British Civil Wars. This article aims at helping to correct this deficiency using civic corporations’ own records of their interactions with the Royalists, which typically survived the Civil Wars.

1643年1月，在约克大主教的选举中发生了争执，在北部国王纽卡斯尔伯爵的s使下，通过武装力量确立了保皇派军事总督的权力。本文对这一事件采取了微观历史的方法。分析政变的机制，尤其是民间公司与纽卡斯尔之间的书信往来，1640年代约克州宪章的签署，该公司与保皇党之间使用的法律论点以及事件对公民与军方之间关系的影响市政府。但是，本文的主要重点是保皇派政府在地方一级的运作方式。由于保皇党的记录在1644-45年失败后遭到破坏，保皇党政府在英国内战的史学中只占有限的位置。本文旨在利用民间公司自己与保皇党的互动记录来纠正这种缺陷，而保皇党通常在南北战争中幸存下来。