This essay will examine why the Civil war had begun.The English Civil War had taken place between 1642 to 1649 and took place in the British Isle. The war was against two side, the Royalist-the people supporting the Queen or King and the Roundheads, people supporting the Parliament. Furthermore, this essay will discuss why the Civil War began also,the most important reasons and why.
On 1629 King Charles decided to close down Parliament for 11 years because he felt that they where exerting so much power than they should.It had also made him jealous because he feels that he was entilted ‘‘divine right of Kings” which means that God had chosen him-whilst seeing Parliament using all the power made him feel less important.However, the Parliament expected the Kings and Queens to listen to them like how Elizabeth had done however King Charles didn 't and this made Parliament angry.This was then followed by the ‘eleven years of tyranny’ which ended in 1640 when he recalled Parliament because he had shortage of money for the many mistakes that he had made.
Whilst Parliament had continued to be shut down, Charles needed to find money somewhere else. He decided that everybody should pay ship money, this was
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In November 1640 King Charles was forced to recalling Parliament back to pay the money to make them leave England.However Parliament said that they would only agree if the King had demolished:(Ship Money was to be declared illegal and Charles had to agree that Parliament could never be dismissed without Parliament agreeing to this. If, for whatever reason, Parliament was dismissed, no more than three years could pass before a new one was called.Laud and Strafford were removed as advisors and be executed.) Laud and Strafford were bad advisors and archbishop. Also Earl of Strafford everyone had hated him. In addition Charles had married a Princess from France named Henrietta