Hello everyone and welcome back to his letter Gallup, 1638-1641, the search for peace.

This covers the period dealt with in 8 episodes, 369-376, when in all began to get quite detailed,

political and naming, so quite a few folks have got lost.

Just a reminder you do not need to listen to this episode at all, you can keep simply

to the numbered detailed episodes, but if you do want to refresh or sneak preview even

of the themes of the period and you don't mind plot spoilers, then at a Gallup is for you.

Last time we heard about the personal rule of Charles I or the 11 years tyranny, depending

on your viewpoint. We heard how Charles managed to rule without Parliament by carefully controlling

costs and raising all sorts of weird and wonderful taxes. He indulged few of the past time of

King's No War, playing only at happy families, admiring Henrietta Maria's extravagant

masks, collecting and patronising art, and encouraging his mate William Lord and his

bishops in taking his church to a more beautiful ceremonial and formal hue.

In 1638 England was at peace. He might ask how long it would last his financial exactions,

the rigor and brutality with which he imposed ecclesiastical and financial compliance through

the Courts of High Commission and Star Chamber had made him deeply unpopular. But if his

reign had primed the gun of England with the gunpowder of outrage, yet there was no figure

pulling the trigger. After a couple of minutes listening to this

episode you might wonder at the title The Search for Peace, because it's going to be quite

a lot of arguing going on quite a bit of conflict. Although the trigger would come in

1638, today we're going to talk about a period where all the English Parliament was saying

was give peace a chance. And for a long time that seemed to be happening.

So it was from Scotland that came the trigger. I need to be brutally short with a Scottish

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