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1.4- The Long Parliament

Revolutions

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The King's Secret Plan to Arrear the Opposition Leaders

In 16 forty two king charles paid an extremely ill advised visit to the house of commons. He decided that if he couldn't dissolve parliament, his best play would be to just lock up the opposition leaders. The five members were john pim, John hamden, arthur hazlrig denzil halls and william strode. Charles demanded they come forward but was left empty handed. Neither side expected it to actually happen, because both sides thought the other side was going to blink. But then nobody blinked, and everyone got sucked into the first english civil war.

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