I'm John Batchew with Professor Jonathan Healy, his new book, The Blood in Winter,

England on the brink of Civil War, 1642.

There's a lot of violence for the fact that the civil war comes after this book,

but the violence turns on a debate in Parliament.

Now remember, Parliament meets in St. Stephen's Hall.

It's not lit by electricity.

So when the day goes on, it's wintertime closing in.

You get stark and they have to carry on their debates by candlelight.

It's quite charming.

Congress, the Parliament never leaves.

This is the long parliament.

But it turns on a vote.

They'll divide the house the way they do now.

And there's the royalist faction.

There's the Puritan faction.

There's the junto.

There are those wandering around in between, going back and forth.

And then there are a lot of members who aren't there.

Remember, this is four or five hundred people. and you need to gather your forces for a vote.

A lot of towing and froing and violence outside.

This is now December of 1641, coming to the critical months of 1642.

What is the remonstrists, Jonathan?

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