![]() ![]() ![]() Many MPs were Puritans, and of these, the Independents or Congregationalists dominated. Parliament also wanted to prevent what it considered a steady return to Catholic practices in the Anglican Church masterminded by such Arminians as William Laud (1573-1645), the Archbishop of Canterbury. King Charles' lack of compromise and unshakeable belief in his divine right to rule had brought him into direct and persistent conflict with an equally strong-willed Parliament that wanted a greater role in government. The war was only the fighting phase of a struggle that went back to the very first year of Charles I's reign in 1625. The Third English Civil War or Anglo-Scottish War (1650-1651).The Second English Civil War (Feb-Aug 1648).The First English Civil War (1642-1646). ![]()
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