INDIVIDUALS

• John Hampden refused to pay 20 shillings in ship money in 1635, 7 of the judges he sat before upheld Charles I whilst 5 sided with Hampden.
• John Lilburne demanded in his pamphlets for religious liberty, extension of suffrage to craftsmen and small property owners and complete equality before the law.
• John Lilburne spent most of the period August 1645 to August 1647 in prison but remained popular with dissenters in London who acquitted him of high treason in 1649.
• Katherine Chidley refused to undergo the Churching of women after the birth of her son Daniel (1626), which was a traditional ritual in Catholicism involving blessing mothers after recovery from childbirth and giving them the opportunity to thank God for the safe delivery of their child.  
• In 1644 Jane Whoorwood arranged the movement of at least £80,000 in gold coin from London to Oxford, to reach where Charles’ court had been stationed since 1642, concealed in soap barrels and smuggled through Parliamentary checkpoints.
• In November of 1647, Charles fled to the Isle of Wight where there were 3 escape attempts coordinated by Jane Whoorwood from Carisbrooke Castle.
• Richard Montague was Charles' personal Chaplin, he tried to seek a middle road between Roman Catholic and Calvinist extremes.
• Henrietta Maria believably manipulated Charles in matters of court and religion.
• William Laud became Archbishop of Canterbury in January of 1633 and was beheaded on the 10th of January 1645.
• Laud believed in episcopacy, the Laudianism movement emphasised liturgical ceremony and clerical hierarchy and deposed calvinism.
• Thomas Wentworth (Earl of Strafford) was given a seat on the privy council in 1629 due to his influence in the North, despite in 1626 refusing to pay the forced loan that paid for the war with Spain.
• On the Privy Council Wentworth advocated for the personal rule of Charles, more effective implementation of the Poor Laws and measures for dealing with famine, despite this he was not above profiting off of corn shortage in 1631.
• Wentworth was stationed in Ireland from 1634-1639, before being recalled to England and failing to deal with the Scottish invasion of the Northern counties, this as well as Charles not being capable of paying his soldiers forced him to recall parliament in November 1640.
• William Noy, the attorney general, was given the task of searching through history books to uncover past laws and practices which could be used to raise money for Charles e.g. Distraint of Knighthood where 9,000 individuals were charged.
• Burton, Bastwick and Prynne, were held before the court of star chamber in 1637 and sentenced to have holes bored in their ears and to be branded for publishing literature that spoke negatively of Charles I.
• Strafford was put on trial in April 1641 after being arrested alongside Laud, but there was fear that he would be pardoned if he appeared before the house of Lords, Charles gave his assent to the Bill of Attainder and Strafford was beheaded in May without a trial.
• In June of 1641, John Pym pushed for more constitutional changes e.g. the abolition of the prerogative courts, before this he had secured the Act against the dissolution of Parliament without its own consent (Trinneal act 1641).
• John Pym was a puritan MP for Tavistock concerned by the growth of Arminianism and when parliament returned in 1641, he was seen as the leader of the opposition to the King and his supporters.
• The marriage Buckingham arranged between Henrietta Maria and Charles failed to bring about an Anglo-French alliance and angered by parliament by raising the threat of catholic succession.
• A bill to impeach George Villiers 1st Duke of Buckingham was introduced in May 1626, Charles then dissolved Parliament in June to save him and when Buckingham was held before Royal Court of Star Chamber he was excused.
• Buckingham sent a Drake style (1587) naval expedition to Cadiz, Spain in October 1625 that disintegrated before it even reached the city.
• In 1627 Buckingham led another 8,000 man force to relieve the port of La Rochelle under attack by French troops but his shattered army was forced to withdraw after 4 months.
• On the 23rd of August 1628 he was stabbed to death by a naval lieutenant called John Felton.
• Charles' nephews Prince Rupert of the Rhine and Maurice of Nassau helped the civil war effort from 1642-1643.
• General Fairfax was the first commander of the New Model Army founded in February 1645.
• Elizabeth Hooton was among the first to be convinced by the teachings of George Fox, who founded the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), however some contemporaries report that Fox clarified some of his beliefs with Hooton’s mentoring of him when they met in 1647. 
• Hooton was assaulted by a church minister in Selston in 1660, imprisoned twice in 1651 and 1652 and in 1662 travelled to Boston where she was led on a two week walk into the woods and abandoned.