Hello everyone and welcome back to the history of England at a Gallop, new ways old

ways, which covers the period dealt with in episodes 350-357, which is very broadly 1625-1629.

At a Gallop is designed for a couple of reasons. You might want to take a faster, more summarised

route through the period all, you might want to use it as a refresher or framework to help

you sort out the contents of the detailed episodes you've just listened to before.

If neither are what you want, you just don't have to listen to the saw, you may have found

episodes 350-357 just you're liking. But look, at a Gallop is here if you want it and

the world is your lobster.

Last time we heard about the end of the reign of James I and VI, the first king of Britain,

I suppose you might say, we had heard that James' political nows had enabled him to avoid

big bust ups, while sailing admittedly close enough to the line to experience the old

love in his jib or two. However, he'd had left a few tricky issues for his son and

heir Charles to deal with, or at least a few unexploded bombs that would need to be diffused

very carefully. Potential religious problems in Scotland, a legacy of distrust on behalf

of the Countries of England with the moral and religious rectitude of the court, or otherwise

since it was seen to have been a bit of a party palace, sugared with more than a dusting

of Catholicism. A sense that may be Parliament and a common law were better defenders of

English liberty and religion than were their king. Oh, did I mention a whopping 1 million

quid debt? James had so enjoyed being generous and going hunting and having fun.

This time we're going to talk about the reign of his son, a stripling of 25 when his father

it seems to me that you can very broadly divide Charles's reign up into three chunks,

a first period, or chunk, when he tries to rule like a tutor, hand in hand with his loving

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