History 2405E Lecture : Lecture 49 – Towards Civil War
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Lecture 49 towards civil war: 1640-1642: introduction. Personal rule of charles i ends; civil war breaks out two years later. National covenant: scots feared armenians and the new service book, rose in revolt, swore a covenant: to protect their own system of worship from and english, charles raised an army, but it failed. Very unpopular in ireland, imposed strong government enthusiastically: advised charles to rule firmly and deal with enemies strongly. Needs to raise large sums of money; needs to call parliament: parliament called in 1640, wentworth created the earl of strafford. All pent-up hostility comes to the surface to be vented in parliament. Charles would have made sure to fiddle some of the elections by making sure he had friends in parliament: parliamentary management not a strength of the stuarts. Many of the old opponents to the crown were dead: coke, etc. New generation of parliamentary opponents are growing.