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Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England Episode 352, The Bed Un the Senge.

Now obviously you are expecting me to sweep you away from the plague, torn London,

to the green fields of 17th century Oxford and the reconvened 1625 Parliament.

And I will do that at some point.

But I also promised faithfully last time that we would talk about religion you and I and Richard Montercue.

And I think it's important that we do that because it will hopefully through a useful light on what will be

an irritating habit of MPs over the next few years to just keep returning to the subject of religion.

However hard the government tries to say just show me the money.

I hate to use a dog walking analogy again here, but it's like when you get to a particular field on your dog walk

and the bloody dog hairs off like a blue-arced fly into the distance to the exact same spot every time

despite your desperate entreaties for him not to.

Because something died down there 10 years ago, smelled just fantastic.

And the doggy brain remembers that and the nose can still do the honours because the doggy nose

is quite a thing. Drives me up the wall when I forget and haven't applied the lead before said field

arrives. Keeps going back to the same old spot. Anyway Parliament and indeed the people keep doing

that and there's an argument that he's this at least the Civil War. Don't discuss that yet though.

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