Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Political Consequences of Strafford's death
- Scapegoat
- Safer to blame Evil Councillors
- Avoid punishment speaking vs Charles
- Avoided breaking the "great chain of being" by questioning need for monarchy
- Direct attack=undermining. Prompt demand from lower order for change.
- Circumstantial evidence
- Sir Henry Vane only overheard- "here" could be England/Scotland
- Inference to connect with conclusion of fact
- Bill of Attainder: death of Strafford
- Passed 204 to 59
- Only 50% MP's vote/absented
- Saye and Sele feigns illness
- May 1641
- ARMY PLOT
- ToL.
- 2nd plot: after exe Went- military force v
Parli...revealed Oc 1641
- Charles agrees bill-Parli no dissolve w/o consent
- Actual consequences
- Alliance between Old and New English in Ireland,
bounded by the hatred of Strafford, now broken
- Protestation Oath: 1641
- Bind MP's- threat of absolutism
- Allegiance sworn to Parli-reformed prot relig.