Absolute Monarchy
The Magna Carta Limits Power English Monarchy 1215 C.E.
Elizabeth I - England
King James I Was King of Scotland Believed Divine Right > Parliament Parliament controlled $$$$$
King Charles I (1625- 1649) Made Promises to Parliament Broke Promises Disbanded Parliament (1629-1640) Collected "Ship Money" instead of taxes Angers the Scots Recalls Parliament Tries to arrest members of Parliament Civil War Breaks Out Captured by Oliver Cromwell Flees England Recaptured and Beheaded
England becomes a Republic (Commonwealth) Cromwell was commander and chief · Crushed a Catholic uprising in Ireland · Quelled an uprising in Scotland · Internal challenge from a group (the Levelers) wanted free speech, religious tolerance, democratic republic, equal rights for women and Parliament to have the right to meet every year "I tell you...you have no other way to deal with these men but to break them or they will break you; ….and make void all that work that, with so many years' industry, toil, and pains, you have done" Was Cromwell a dictator?
Who should be King after Cromwell died? 1st Choice – Charles the II brother James Catholic Had a son late in life Will England be ruled by a Catholic? 2nd Choice- William of Orange Asked by Parliament to "invade England" Despised Louis XIV of France "Glorious Revolution"