Royalist arrests and local resistance in the Interregnum

Did England's Interregnum produce arrests comparable to the pursuit of suspected Bonapartists in France?

Yes. Suspected royalists could be arrested or flee abroad, although armed communities in places such as Cornwall could make enforcement hazardous.

Suspected royalists could face imprisonment or exile during the Interregnum, but enforcing an arrest depended on local conditions. Alex recounts a Cornish story about a possible distant relative: an official arriving with about 100 soldiers withdrew after encountering roughly 600 armed people acting in an organized military fashion. Cornwall's weapons are linked to local manufacture, smuggling, privateering, and the need to resist slave raids from North Africa. Narrow roads, wooded valleys, and steep slopes also made armed resistance difficult to suppress. The family connection is tentative, and the confrontation is presented as an anecdote.