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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- BOOK VI GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND WITHOUT THE PARLIAMENT. TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND
- BOOK VII CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND AND THOSE IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE
- BOOK VIII THE LONG PARLIAMENT AND THE KING, DOWN TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I Summoning of the Parliament
- CHAP. II The first sittings of the Long Parliament
- CHAP. III Progress of aggressive tendencies in the Lower House
- CHAP. IV Attempt at a Reaction
- CHAP. V Parliamentary and popular agitation. Execution of Strafford
- CHAP. VI Concessions and new demands
- CHAP. VII Charles I in Scotland
- CHAP. VIII Days of the Grand Remonstrance
- CHAP. IX Formation of a new Ministry. Tumultuous agitation in the Capital
- CHAP. X Breach between the King and the Parliament
- BOOK IX THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, 1642—1646
- BOOK X INDEPENDENTS AND PRESBYTERIANS. FATE OF THE KING
CHAP. VII - Charles I in Scotland
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- BOOK VI GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND WITHOUT THE PARLIAMENT. TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND
- BOOK VII CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND AND THOSE IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE
- BOOK VIII THE LONG PARLIAMENT AND THE KING, DOWN TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I Summoning of the Parliament
- CHAP. II The first sittings of the Long Parliament
- CHAP. III Progress of aggressive tendencies in the Lower House
- CHAP. IV Attempt at a Reaction
- CHAP. V Parliamentary and popular agitation. Execution of Strafford
- CHAP. VI Concessions and new demands
- CHAP. VII Charles I in Scotland
- CHAP. VIII Days of the Grand Remonstrance
- CHAP. IX Formation of a new Ministry. Tumultuous agitation in the Capital
- CHAP. X Breach between the King and the Parliament
- BOOK IX THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, 1642—1646
- BOOK X INDEPENDENTS AND PRESBYTERIANS. FATE OF THE KING
Summary
In the middle of August 1641 Charles I reappeared in Scotland after eight years' absence. What restlessness had since pervaded the country from end to end! how completely altered was the position of the King! In the year 1633 he had begun to establish the monarchical and despotic system which he had in view: in 1641 he was obliged to accept and confirm maxims entirely contrary to it.
He assented to the acts of the Assembly at Glasgow and of the Parliament of 1640: he gave up the bishops in Scotland and submitted without further hesitation to those claims of parliamentary power against which he had striven so long and desperately: he ratified the treaty already concluded by touching it with his sceptre. But all was not yet over. On September 16 a new act was read, by which the nomination to the most important offices in the administration of the state and of justice was made dependent on the approval of Parliament. The King said that he accepted it in order to supply a need which the country might experience through his absence: he would in future let his Privy Council consist of a fixed number of members, never to be exceeded, according to the advice of the Estates: he would lay before them a list of those to whom he thought of confiding the great offices of state, and hoped that it would meet with their approval.
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- A History of EnglandPrincipally in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 280 - 289Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010