Hello everyone and welcome back to the history of England, episode 381, six days.

Okay, so the story is this. The Junto's reform programme is on a knife edge. Attention

had moved away to Ireland and applied to the Protestants there. The House of Lords has shown clearly

that a majority of them now feel that reform has probably gone quite far enough,

so their standing firm against Pym on the existence and political role of the bishops,

the King's absolute right to retain military control, and his right to a point whomever he wishes

as his ministers without parliamentary approval. Even the Commons, though more radical than the

Lords, was now divided deeply. The King had built a substantial party in the Commons,

which also believed reform had gone far enough. As a result, as we heard last time the Grand

Remens trans had passed its folk by a whisper. For Charles himself, the time for compromise with

the Junto was now gone. Now he could use this new parliamentary support to reestablish control

and visit his vengeance on the Junto for the crime they'd forced him to commit in abandoning

strafford against his own honour. But if he was to succeed, Charles would need not only to win on

the floor of the House, but on the streets of London, where those marchers and petitioners and

church ministers had made such a massive impact and created such enormous pressure.

So, objective number one, nurture, feed, inspire that traditional groundswell of loyalty,

reverence and fear for the majesty of the King. So, as Charles, Henrietta Maria, and Charles

the Young Prince of Wales entered London for the first time in his reign, Charles treated the

world to a procession, chewed a style. This was the occasion to woo not just ordinary Londoners,

but also to bind to the city-fathers and the mayor to him. Edward Nicholas the courtier was

convinced that the city-elite were also weary of the insolent carriage of the schizmatics

and their efforts to gain the effections of the vulgar. Popular politics was a four-letter word.

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