378 Protestations

The History of England

David Crowther

Royal, Queen, Europe, Modern, Parliament, History, Monarchy, Early Modern, Medieval, English, England, King, Politics

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🗓️ 18 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In a time of national danger and an explosion of print and debate, the Protestation Oath of 1641 was a remarkable act of nation building. But it's success did nothin to divert Charles' closest advisers, the Queen and Edward Nicholas from the plan to build a royalist party.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the history of England.
0:28.6	Episode 378 this time, Proto-Stations.
0:34.1	Someone did write to me once and raised an objection to the habit of leaving podcasts
0:39.3	on a cliffhanger.
0:40.3	And I suppose it can be a bit annoying, but somehow if there is a cliff in the vicinity,
0:45.7	I think it falls into the silly knot to category to refuse to hang on it.
0:49.9	But I'm sorry if it's annoying.
0:51.7	Anyway, Charles is in Edinburgh, feeling rather ground down by events and the relentless
0:56.9	nature of the Covenanters.
0:59.3	He has extended the hand of friendship, but our guy learnt his colleagues have made
1:03.4	it pretty clear that said hand is nothing more than their Jew and he jolly lucky still
1:09.1	to be attached to it anyway, so there are no special favours to be had here.
1:14.8	Edinburgh, meanwhile, was absolutely rammed with armed men.
1:19.2	All the magnates had born their armed retinues with them, as well as their won't.
1:24.7	So the place was something of a tinderbox with rumours and intrigue, but nothing in the
1:29.7	King's attitude did anything but calm things down.
1:32.9	He was being something of a lamb, meek and mild.
1:38.1	Then, towards the end of September strange, he Charles began to get a bit more flinty.
1:44.9	He really held the line about his people, the so-called incendiaries, like Montrose.
1:50.5	He argued tooth and nail about the composition of his privy council and insisted on presenting
1:55.6	a list of possible from which Parliament could then choose, rather than the other way around,
2:00.7	as our guy all wanted.
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