The English Civil War

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  • The English Civil War
    • a bad start to the reign 1625-29
      • a cut off king
        • Caroline court a refined and formal court
        • Strict etiquette kept Charles at a distnce from his people
        • He was a sheltered king out of touch with themood of his people
      • a catholic queen
        • Charles married a French Catholic Princess
          • She was called Henrietta Maria
        • She brought with her catholic priests and advisors to the royal court
        • fears of Catholic influence
      • Inflexible view on Divine Right of Kings
        • charles maintains a fanatical view of divine right of kings
        • Bound to lead to trouble with parliment ´growing up` nad wanting more of a say in the country
      • Hated favourite, Duke of Buckingham, remains in power
        • Buckingham´s influence infuriates parliment
        • murdered by John Felton in 1628
      • petition of right
        • put forward on behalf of parliment by MPs Sir Thomas Wentworth and SirJhn Elliott
        • Charles signed away power in return for money
        • no taxes without arliments consent-no imprisoment without trial
        • AFTER A TENSE DEBATE CHARLES DISMISSED HIS THIRD PARLIMET. HIS 11 YERAS OF PERSONAL RULE (1629-1640)(TYRANNY) HAD BEGUN
    • On 22 august 1642 king charles I declared against his enemies in parliment
    • stage 2
      • charles rules without parlimet
      • money
        • he used ´ship money` to get money
          • this tax was used to improve the navy at a time of war
          • in 1634 charles asked the coastal countries to pay the ship money
          • in 1635 he asked the inland countries as well
          • he wanted to make the tax permanent
      • religion
        • in the 1630s Charles and archbishop Laud began to make changes to the church of England
        • They believed that people woud feel closer to God if churches were decorated
        • this didn´t please the puritans and other protestants
    • stage 3
      • the scots rebel against the  new prayer book
        • in 1637 Charles changed the scottish prayer book to the english
        • the scots weren´t happy and reveled
        • Charles tried to raise an army against the scots
          • he made a new tax called the ´coat and conduct money`to pay for the army. the gentry refused to pay or collect the tax
    • stage 4
      • the long parliment demands reform
      • in 1640 he called parlimet again for all the problems that he got himself in
      • parliment made a list of demands that charles had to agree to by 1641 in the summer he had agreed to all of them
    • trigger 1
      • the grand remonstrate was narrowly passed by just 159 votes to 148. Charles now had some support
    • trigger 2
      • november 1641: the irish rebelion
        • people thought that charles was behind the rebelion to try and make england catholic again
        • catholics had raised up against the protestants
    • trigger 3
      • january 1642: charles tries to arrest five MPs
        • the MPs thought that Charles wanted to get rid of parliment and when Charles burst into the house of commons with 400 soldiers to arrest 5 MPs they were sure he was planning something
    • trigger 4
      • february1642: religious division
        • in february 1642 parliment voted to throw bishops out of the house of lords
        • some MPs began to think about supporting Charles because they thought if the bishops and the national church were abolished there would be chaos
    • trigger 5
      • march 1642: arguments about the army
      • england needed an army to fight of the irish rebelion
      • the king had always controlled the army in the past but the MPs didn´t tust charles so when charles refused they took control without his permission
    • trigger 6
      • 1 june 1642: the commons go too far
      • parliment passed a set of demands called the nineteen propositions. Mps who supported the king felt that parliment had gonne to far. in june parliment ordered each county to prepare and army so did the king each side was prepared for war

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