Introduction

King charles was forced to start doing the one thing he appears to have hated doing more than just about anything else, and that is giving in to other people's demands. In february 16, forty one he accepted the triennial bill, which was an enormous constitutional concession. The leaders in parliament promised to vote charles four subsidies, bury radical presbyterian church reforms and consider leniency for the earl of strafford. But the third promise, leniency for strafford, exposed a split among the puritan lords. For them, the looming impeachment trial would simply end their line of power. So why must strafford die? John adamson's detailed