Complex sentence: Their history is just as ambiguous thereafter, although lawyers were known to join the Royalists, and their clerks the Parliamentarians, during the English Civil War; and The Inns were called out against the Jacobite invasion of 1745 and the Gordon riots of 1780.
Split into simpler sentences: Their history is just as ambiguous thereafter, although many lawyers were known to join the Royalists, and their clerks the Parliamentarians, during the English Civil War. Certainly members of The Inns were called out against the Jacobite invasion of 1745 and the Gordon riots of 1780.