The Long Parliament
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- Created on: 05-06-18 13:42
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Scotland
Scottish nobles signed a document saying they would defend the King
- Charles wanted support in Scotland and wanted the Scottish army to leave Newcastle so he agreed to get rid of bishops in Scotland, which pleased the nobility
The 'Incident'
- Charles was now in Scotland
- Scottish Covenanters had heard there was a royalist plot to kidnap their leaders; Charles claimed to know nothing of this plot and turned up at the Scottish Parliament with hundreds of soldiers to 'prove it'
- The plot, and Charles' reaction to it, ruined his chances…
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