politics

• The Petition of Right: 1628

  
  

  No forced loans

  No imprisonment without trial

  No martial law
• Charles dissolves parliament in 1629 as they started looking into his breaches of the petition of right
• Charles I executed in January 1649

  
  

  150 MPs who supported negotiations with Charles instead of execution were executed themselves

  
  

  Charles’ execution left a Rump Parliament of 240

  
  

  Only 71 were involved in the trial and execution of Charles
• The Putney debates

  1647
• General Monck's army arrived in London


  January 1660