Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England episode 355, the hearts of our people.

Before I start though, I am recording this on 7th of October which is but three weeks

from the end of the inaugural History of England podcast tour. Just very briefly, I want

thank everyone who came. The tour had been conceived four years ago, canceled twice,

and I was in a thorough going panic about it. Despite the chaos that ensued from Queen

Elizabeth's death, the whole thing was a complete joy and a hoot. I had the best

time, and I think everyone else enjoyed it too. I hope so anyway.

Thanks to everyone for coming to spend a week with me. Thanks for being so patient and

such a good company and it means I'm definitely going to have to do this again next year,

and we'll worry constantly it could never be as much fun as the first time because you

said such a high standard.

Now then, it is important to take note of SR Gardeners view that the Civil Wars cannot

be understood outside the context of all three kingdoms. So, we'd better keep the Scots

and the Irish in mind albeit this being a history of England. And after all, there are

many voices who claim the English Revolution could not have happened at all without

the Scottish one. So my friends, let us spend ten minutes or so north of the border and

party with the Scots.

As I believe we have mentioned, during Jane's reign there was considerable suspicion between

English and the Scots. The English thought the Scots were taking their new way from them

and being rewarded with undue, lavish patronage. The Scots, meanwhile, resented and

disliked the formality of the English court and thought they did things much better back

home. They resented the superior attitude of the English towards them and worried about

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