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

This episode covers the same period as the detailed episodes, 329 to 335. At a 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 at a Gallop episode, we are going to talk through some of the critical trends that

appearing 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

loads of them in Scotland, and he'd manage them all 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 turn

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. The Scottish Parliament was a unicameral composed

of three estates, Kirk, Nobility and Towns, who all sat together in one chamber. The Parliament

was a lot smaller, so there were fewer people to manage than in England, and voting tended

to follow very much the example of the few great magnates. So, lads tended to follow the

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