Court of High Commission
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The Court of High Commission was the supreme ecclesiastical court in England, from the inception of King Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy in 1534 to 1689, with periods of time where there was no court ac
Queen Elizabeth I
John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury
King Charles I, by Anthony van Dyck
Long Parliament
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The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which nominally lasted from 1640 until 1660, making it the longest-lasting Parliament in English and British history. It followed the fiasco of the Short
Court of High Commission
…Seditious Sectaries Act 1593, making Puritanism an offence. The court reached the height of its powers during the Reformation. It was dissolved by the Long Parliament in 1641. The court was convened at will by the sovereign, and had near unlimited power over civil as well as church matters. There were also Scottish…
Charles signed a bill agreeing that the present Parliament should not be dissolved without its own consent.
Viscount Falkland; killed at Newbury in 1643, typical of those moderates who supported reforms, but opposed the Grand Remonstrance and became Royalists
King Charles' attempt to arrest the Five Members of the Commons
Carisbrooke Castle, on the Isle of Wight, where Charles was held in December 1648