I'm John Bachelors, visiting with Jonathan Healy and a social professor of

history, social history at Oxford University, most importantly the author of a book

I highly recommend to understand where

America comes from.

The blazing world, a new history of Revolutionary England 1603 to 1689, to my reading as an amateur, the cases and the presentations and the

passions in Jonathan's book will reappear as if by magic in the founders of the United States of America. And the arguments

that are in the 17th century are still with us. I understand we've done a deal of learning since then but the same idea of regents versus the

people and what is the correct way to govern is it for the safety of the people? Is it for the absolute power of the king?

Is it somewhere in between? We go now to Charles I, a young region, and his most important minister is the man he went

dashing off to Spain with Buckingham who's in charge of the fleet and yet that

matter of money causes again and again the problems in with Charles's early days of Charles

his reign. He's trying to deal with Parliament. A deal here, I noted Edward Koch is still with us. he's a very aged man at this point do I have

that correctly Jonathan he's still he's still a lot yes no and Edward Cook is

he's I mean you know a man of a very interesting career path, former attorney general to Queen Elizabeth,

and who fell foul of James the first when he was Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

And he's now sort of in his older years, he's kind of reinvented himself almost as a sort of, you know, opposition politician and he's

one of the kind of leading figures in Parliament, he gets elected in Parliament in the 16th

20s, pushing for a sort of, you know, a kind of restriction on the power of the

monarchy and he's very central behind the petition of rights of 1628.

So yeah, a very interesting, very interesting career.

And a man whose legal judgments still get cited in common law countries even today,

very interesting.

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