The Death of the Earl of Staford

The earl of bedford had been the great weight keeping extremists in check. Charles never forgave himself and came to believe that the horror of the coming civil wars was divine retribution for strafford's death. The key to charles's strategy in scotland was the earl of argyle, specifically detaching him from the covenanter cause. So what behind the plot? We find montrose, who popped up briefly last week as the covenis of aberdeen.