From 1629 to 1940 Charles was so annoyed with Parliament that he tried to rule without having to call them. But Charles needed money urgently so he decided to tax people in every possible way he could think of. He interfered with trades by starting new companies, forcing the other ones to close down, merchants hated this. He forced people to loan him money, he planned never to pay it back. He sold titles, like his father had done, so a normal person could become a baronet for 1000. The nobles didn’t like this. He charged ship money, this was when people lived in a coastal country they were taxed to provide ships for the navy. In 1634 Charles made this a regular tax, and in 1635 he extended it to the whole country. People disliked this and a Buckinghamshire man, John Hampton, was famously sent to prison for refusing to pay. Charles also fined people. He had the right to collect fines from the law courts. He looked into old rules, such as the forest rules and fined people who broke them. And finally he sold monopolies, again like his father had done. Monopolies were gave people the right to cell certain goods. They were given to certain people who then put them up in price and made allot of money.
But Charles needed money for troops to defeat the Scottish rebellion so he had to call parliament again-in 1640. In the short term, the events, which followed, caused the civil war to happen. Between 1940 and 1642 the king’s chief minister, Strafford, was executed. Charles had to sign the death warrant he that he was frightened that his wife and children might be attacked so Strafford went to his death. Charles received a list of complaints before he received any money from Parliament. It was called “The Grand Remonstrance,” but Charles had had enough. So, he decided he was going to arrest five of the most important MP’s. He was planning to achieve this by talking three hundred armed men along with him to the House of Commons. When Charles got there, though, he they were not there. They had fled from the house and escaped down the river. Charles assumed someone had tipped them off. And was it was said that he quoted this “I see all the are flown.” Trying to arrest the MP’s made parliament extremely angry, and an irate mob made their way to the palace. Now Charles’ home didn’t even seem to be safe. This made decide to move north to try and get an army together. He sent his wife, the queen Henrietta Maria, to Holland taking with her the crown jewels. She was told to find help and money for the army. Then in August 1642 the king raised his flag in the middle of a field in Nottingham but it was blown down soon after.
I think that the war was inevitable to happen when Charles tried to rule without parliament and when he tried to arrest the five MP’s. I think this because he did not have the right to do that and that and that type of thing is bound to start a war.