Charles, fresh from his wedding, summons his first parliament. The previous year the House of Commons had been eager for war with Spain, and happy to pay for it. Surely they would be now? What grievances could they possibly have after just a few months of his reign?
In other news, the Anglo-Dutch expedition to Spain gets monumentally hammered.
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In this episode I made particular use of the following publications:
- The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire.
- David Smith, The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689
- Kishlasnky, M, A Monarchy Transformed: 1603-1714
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01.41 - Murder on the Saltwater Frontier
01.40 - Providence Gained
01.39 - City on a Hill
Bonus - The First Intersex in Colonial America
01.38 - Personal Rule
01.37 - The Graces
01.36 - Root and Branch
Bonus - Early Modern English Witchcraft with Professor Darren Oldridge
01.35 - The Sword of the Magistrate
01.34 - War and Peace
Bonus - New England Revisited
Bonus - The Life of Barnet Burns, Pākehā Māori
Bonus - Buckingham and Berry
01.33 - Constitutional Crisis
Bonus - The Industrial Revolutions
01.32 - The Martyr Assassin
01.31 - The Duke of Hazard
01.30 - The Siege of Saint-Martin
Bonus - The English Revolution with Mike Duncan
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