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Johnathan healey on laud opening parliament
Charles’s choice for the sermon that opened Parliament was none other than William Laud, who was known to be a keen ceremonialist and was suspected of Arminianism.
- the 26 parliament was again opened by laud
Johnathan healey on charlses protection of montagu
Charles intervened, revealing to considerable shock that the clergyman was now a royal chaplain, and was thus protected.
Johnathan healey on charlses hostility towards Calvinist’s
-Godly Yorkshireman Henry Burton had been acting clerk of the closet to Prince Charles. When his master became king, Burton made the mistake of attacking popish inclinations of Bishop Richard of Durham and, and he was fired
- Calvinist bishop John Williams was fired from his secular role as Lord Keeper and replaced with the pliable Sir Thomas Coventry
- Charles had six MPs shifted to roles as Sherrie’s in charge of organising county elections, meaning they couldn’t stand as MPS. This included Thomas wentowrth and Edward Coke
- calvinists were being shut out ‘
Witchcraft allegations against Buckingham, Underdown, Freeborn People, p. 35.
-‘frequent consultations with the ringleaders of witches’
- he had murdwred James using poison provided by his catholic mother
Parliament’s defiance against Charles + Buckingham in 1626- under down, freeborn people p.19
-they prepared a ‘remonstrance’ against Buckingham, a formal denunciation to the king, and copies were available to buy in Westminster before Charles had even seen it
Parliament on the forced loan, r.cust 1987
the government encouraged the people to give ‘willingly and cheerfully’, while warning that those who refused would suffer the king’s ‘high displeasure’
