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Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England Atta Gallop, font of all virtue.

This episode covers the same period as the detailed episodes, 329 to 335.

Atta Gallop is designed for a couple of uses.

You might want to take a faster, more summarised route through the period,

or you might want to use it as a refresher or a framework to help you sort out the contents of the detailed episodes in your mind.

If neither of what you want, then you just don't have to listen to this, you can skip ahead.

You may have found episodes 329 to 335 just to your liking.

But it's here if you want it, the world is your lobster.

In this Atta Gallop episode, we are going to talk through some of the critical trends that appear in James's reign,

which lay the groundwork for later conflict in the reign of his son, the growth of a public sphere of open political debate.

The failure to agree a lasting financial settlement for the crown, and a growing split between court and country.

And some other stuff too, but those are the big ones.

Now then, James knew all about Parliament, he knew exactly how to handle them and get the results he wanted.

He knew that because he had had loads of them in Scotland, and he'd managed more with enormous skill and got exactly what he wanted.

So, he was to come as something of a shock to him, that the English Parliament turned out to be frustratingly and irritatingly difficult to control,

and that they turned out over the next 20 years of his reign to be well.

Well, words escaped him, but could he go for RC?

There are a few reasons for this, the subject of today's episode, I suppose.

The first and simplest one was procedural.

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