The Permanent Abolition Of The Abuses Of PR

• Wentworth was executed 12th May 1641 and Laud was executed 10th January 1645
• The Bridge Appointments were designed to provide the King with more able and suitable advisers
• End of absolute rule:

  Triennial Act passed Feb 1641.

  Act against Dissolution passed May 1641
• End of use of Royal Prerogative to dispense justice:

  Abolition of the Court of Star Chamber July 1641.

  Abolition of Court of High Commission Feb 1641
• End of Laudian Reforms:

  Laud imprisoned

  Altar rails and ceremony stopped

  Prynne, Bastwick and Burton released

  Parliament considered root and Branch petition Dec 1640
• However by May 1641 parliamentary unity began to disintegrate
• Reactions to Root and Branch petition – Differences of opinion about religious reform
• Consequences of the Army plot April 1641 (Rumours that Charles bringing the army from Scotland to London to release Stafford and reverse parliament’s reforms)
• The death of Bedford and the trial and execution of Stafford
• The Protestation Oath (Promise to preserve English Protestantism, sent to every parish –widened the debate in country)