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Hampton Court Conference and the Resulting Dissenters
<a href='' >Image Source: http://laboringinthelord.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Hampton-Court-Conference.jpg </a>After this conference James I established the goal of elaborating on the Angelican episcopacy, which upset the English Puritans who wanted to rid England of these episcopal ways. This left many fleeing England for new places, including America. A loss of people made the Parliament want to step in to avoid further detriment to their population. Something had to be done to counter the new distaste for their country since the king wasn't fulfilling the people's needs. -
Impositions by James I
<a href='' >Image Source: http://faculty.history.wisc.edu/sommerville/361/361-23.htm</a>James I put in place impositions, or new custom duties shortly after he took the throne. These taxes upset the Parliament because they felt as though they were a direct threat to their authority. Parliament thus spent more time observing the actions of the king and trying to counter him in order to assert their power, which eventually led to their collaborative control over what got passed as a tax, law, act, ect. -
Charles I's Forced Loans and Imprisonments
<a href='' >Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_I_Shilling.jpg </a>Charles followed in his father's footsteps by imposing new duties and forced loans, that would supposedly be returned, as well as imprisoning those unwilling to pay. His actions caused an uproar from the people and Parliament who found his new measures too extreme and imposing. Parliament tried to counter these acts with the Petition of Right, demonstrating the beginning of imposition by Parliament to better the situation of the people; a lead towards a limited monarchy. -
Start of English Civil War
<a href='' >Image Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Engl-Bürgerkrieg.JPG </a>The start of the English Civil War symbolized the distrust between the people and the king. The people of England did not want king Charles I to lead their military force against the rebel in Scotland, and this drove the King out of London. This action of Cavaliers vs. Roundheads left many siding with Parliament, and drove for more Parliamentary action in government to maintain order because they trusted Parliament. -
Execution of Charles I
<a href='' >Image Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Charles_I_execution,_and_execution_of_regicides.jpg</a> The execution of King Charles I was the epitome of the push for a change in the monarchy. The people were unhappy with his rule, and distrusted his behaviors, and policies. This combined to culminate a need for radical action that was demonstrated through the execution of their ruler and mirrored by the push to a limited monarchy to avoid the need for this again. -
Oliver Cromwell Made Lord Protector of England
<a href='' >Image Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Oliver_Cromwell_Gaspard_de_Crayer.jpg </a>When Cromwell was made the Lord Protector of England, monarchy was completely eradicated for a short period of time. This brief span of history demonstrated the dissatisfaction for monarchs at the time, and also proved to show a monarch was ultimately necessary as the head when Cromwell's rule was unsuccessful. The people then realized they still wanted a monarch but needed limitations to that monarch in order to benefit from their ruling, instead of absolutism driving them to banish monarchies. -
Birth of Catholic Heir to James II
<a href='' >Image Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/1688_James_%28III.%29.jpg </a>When a catholic heir was bore to James II it was the last straw for people. The Thirty Years War had been waging in Europe dividing countries, and England was prominently Protestant, so a Catholic ruler was a horrifying idea. The good relations that had been developing between the king and Louis XIV of Catholic France unnerved the people and they realized they must have a limited monarchy to control the king's actions in case he did not side with their religion so that they could always be safe.
