In the year 1642, James brought back the parliament to talk about his son’s mirage to a Spanish princess. The parliament gasped when they herd this. In the very end the mirage did not happen.
Charles’s personality was poles apart compared to his father’s personality. Charles was big-headed and he was also a strong believer in the divine right of the king like James. He had seemed to broken relationship with his father and the parliament. He could not believe that a king could be incorrect.
From 1625-1629, Charles had seemed to always argue with the issue of the parliament, religion and the money were the key points that he would argue about.
In 1629, Charles copied his father by refusing the parliament to meet like his father also did. When the mp’s arrived at Westminster, they had found themselves locked outside with great big padlock on the outside and chains. They were locked outside for eleven years and this was called the eleven years tyranny.
In 1635, Charles raised taxes, he also ordered the people that they had to pay ship money. The taxes paid by the people in the local towns and villages pay for the upkeep of the navy and their protection.
In one way Charles was correct, but the relationship between him and the powerful men of the country had a huge argument. One of them was called John Hampden who was an mp. The refused that the people of the country should not pay these new taxes, as the parliament had not agreed to it. Either. John was put on a trial and found guilty but he was also a brave man for standing up to the king. There was no evidence of ship money collected in the areas but Charles wanted to extend it.
In return for the money and a display of their power, the parliament called for an execution of “Black Tom Tyrant”-the early of Strafford, who was one of the top advisors for Charles. After a trial Strafford was executed in 1641.
In 1642 Charles went in to parliament with 300 soldiers to arrest his five biggest critics. Someone close to the parliament had already gone out of the parliament and had already escaped from to the safety of the city of London, where they could put out of sight from the king. Charles had revealed his proper side of him. Charles attempted to arrest five mp because they dared to criticize him. Charles had already known that thing began to brake up between him and the parliament Six days after he tried to arrest the mp, Charles departure from London to oxford to set up an army to fight the parliament for the power and control of England. A civil war had started. Supporters of the monarchy, the king, Parliament, country did not want it.
