Notes 11/18/10

• Puritans
•  Rebelled against anything Roman in the Church
• People who didn't believe the same thing had their ears cut off
• Charles I was narried to a Catholic, which his Puritan followers didn't like
• Many people took the views of Puritanism and wanted the king to stop flaunting th eword of God
• Scotland was converted to Calvinism, but England wasn't
• Divine Right of Kings was introduced by Charles I in 1625
• put him at odds with Parliament 
• Feb 28, 1638- a national covenant was signed and brought ti a place where many Scottish common folks signed
• Charles thought all of these people were rebels and needed to be stopped
• Charles wanted to fight but didn't have the money or manpower
• A truce was made
• Charles thought that Parliament would help him, but they were still angry at him
• Parliament lasted only three weeks before it was suspended again 
• The only other option that Charles had was Thomas Wentworth. 
• Wentworth was an Irishman. 
• This did not help Charles at all, and only made his circumstances worse.