S8 Ep181: "The Incident" of 1641 and Charles I's Failed Plot: Colleague Jonathan Healey narrates "The Incident" of 1641, a failed plot by Charles I to arrest Scottish Covenanter leaders, explaining that the conspiracy's exposure and Charles's subsequent denial dest

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"The Incident" of 1641 and Charles I's Failed Plot: Colleague Jonathan Healey narrates "The Incident" of 1641, a failed plot by Charles I to arrest Scottish Covenanter leaders, explaining that the conspiracy's exposure and Charles's subsequent denial destroyed his political standing in Scotland, forcing him to concede power to the Scottish Parliament and weakening his position before the English Civil War.
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0:00.0	This is CBS Eye on the World.
0:08.5	Here's John Batchelor.
0:12.1	This is CBSI on the world.
0:14.5	I'm John Batchelor.
0:15.6	It is October 1641.
0:19.2	We're in Edinburgh, the centerpiece of a religious contest between Charles I,
0:27.1	King of Great Britain, that includes England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, King of Great Britain,
0:34.5	and a man of self-elected worth called the New Covenanters.
0:40.2	They're Scots and their lords and their lords and they approach the religion of Christianity
0:48.6	and the Bible profoundly differently than the Church of England.
0:52.9	They want the bishops gone. They don't need bishops. They just need the Church of England. They want the bishops gone.
0:55.3	They don't need bishops.
0:56.7	They just need the word of God.
0:58.7	We recognize them today as Presbyterians.
1:01.7	In those days, there were many versions of Presbyterianism,
1:05.5	including what we now call the we kirk.
1:08.3	I begin here because it is evidence of Charles I first attempt to both
1:15.3	solve and trick his opponents in the 1630s and 40s. And those opponents would eventually
1:25.0	become a revolution, a rising of parliament, all of which would
1:30.2	influence the relationship between kings and their assemblies across the continent.
1:35.6	I draw upon a new book. I highly recommend to understand the backstory of the American Revolution.
1:43.1	The Blood in Winter, England on the brink of civil
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