Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . should be imprisoned or suffer any punishment except according to the laws and statutes of the realm as presented in the Great Charter ; and that soldiers should not be quartered upon the people on any pretext whatever. Very reluctantly Charles consented to this restatement of the limitations which the English had always, in theory at least, placed upon the arbitrary power of their king. The disagreement betweenCharles and Parliament was ren-dered much mor
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . should be imprisoned or suffer any punishment except according to the laws and statutes of the realm as presented in the Great Charter ; and that soldiers should not be quartered upon the people on any pretext whatever. Very reluctantly Charles consented to this restatement of the limitations which the English had always, in theory at least, placed upon the arbitrary power of their king. The disagreement betweenCharles and Parliament was ren-dered much more serious byreligious differences. The kinghad married a French Catholicprincess, and the Catholic causeseemed to be gaining on the Con-tinent. The king of Denmark hadjust been defeated by Wallensteinand Tilly (see above, p. 353), andRichelieu had succeeded in de-priving the Huguenots of theircities of refuge. Both James Iand Charles I had shown theirreadiness to enter into agreements with France and Spain toprotect Catholics in England, and there was evidently a growinginclination in England to revert to the older ceremonies of the;. Fig. 96. Charles I ofEngland This portrait is by one of the greatest painters of the time, Anthony Van Dyck, 1599-1641 (see Fig. 98) 370 Medieval and Llodcrn Times Charles dis-solves Parlia-ment (1629)and deter-mines to ruleby himself Charlessfinancialexactions JohnHampden Church, which shocked the more strongly Protestant membersof the House of Commons. The communion table was againplaced by many clergymen at the eastern end of the church andbecame fixed there as an altar, and portions of the service wereonce more chanted. These popish practices, as the Protestants called them,with which Charles was supposed to sympathize, served towiden the breach between him and the Commons, which hadbeen caused by the kings attempt to raise taxeson his own ac-count. The Parliament of 1629, after a stormy session, w&s, dis-solved by the king, who determined to
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