RELIGION - turning points (Charles I)

August 1633

Laud appointed Archbishop of Canterbury

• initiated vigorous campaign to restore the wealth of the Church to pre - Reformation levels

• impose unformity of worship throughout the kingdom

King Charles I supported this - apparently unaware of the hostility and resentment aroused amongst his subjects - PURITANS

1637

Book of Common Prayer

* Scottish church had always been puritan and used different church services from those in England

In 1637, he ordered the Scots to use a new prayer book like the one used in England

Precipitated the Civil War (1642 -1646)

1637 (hint : ears cut off)

June 1637

Wiliam Prynne , John Bastwick and Henry Burton were sentenced fines imprisoned and to lose their ears for criticising Laudian innovations in pamphlets

1638

National Convenant , February 1638

Rejected the attempt by King Charles I and Laud to force the Scottish Church to conform to English liturgical practice and church governance .

1639

First Bishops War

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caused by Scots reaction against King Charles I attempt to reform the Scottish Church

Covenanters became dominant political and religious force in Scotland

1639 - (treaty negotiations)

Pacification of Berwick (June 1639)

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* Demands made for ratification acts of The Glasgow Assembly

King conceded that church matters in the future should be governed by assemblies, but was adamant in his refusal to ratify the Glasgow Assembly of 1638

1641 (HINT : tree)

Root and Branch Petition , December 1640

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Called for the abolition of Bishops from the Church of England and its reform ‘root and branch’ was presented to Parliament

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