Puritan/Commonwealth

Period
King James l

In 1603, he succeeded the last Tudor monarch of

England and Ireland, Elizabeth I, who died childless.
He continued to reign in all three kingdoms for 22
years, a period known after him as the Jacobean era,
until his death. After the Union of the Crowns, he
based himself in England (the largest of the three
realms) from 1603, only returning to Scotland once in
1617, and styled himself "King of Great Britain and
Ireland".
Charles l

Charles believed in the divine right of kings, and

was determined to govern according to his own
conscience. Many of his subjects opposed his
policies, in particular the levying of taxes without
parliamentary consent, and perceived his actions as
those of a tyrannical absolute monarch
Charles ll

Charles was one of the most popular and

beloved kings of England,[1] known as the
Merry Monarch, in reference to both the
liveliness and hedonism of his court and the
general relief at the return to normality after
over a decade of rule by Cromwell and the
Puritans.
Oliver Cromwell

He entered the English Civil Wars on the side

of the "Roundheads" or Parliamentarians,
nicknamed "Old Ironsides". He demonstrated
his ability as a commander and was quickly
promoted from leading a single cavalry troop
to being one of the principal commanders of
the New Model Army, playing an important role
under General Sir Thomas Fairfax in the
defeat of the Royalist ("Cavalier") forces.
King James ll

Tolerance for his personal Catholicism did

not apply to it in general and when the
English and Scottish Parliaments refused to
pass his measures, James attempted to
impose them by decree; it was a political
principle, rather than a religious one, that
ultimately led to his removal.
William of Orange and
Mary ll

William was the only child of William II,

Prince of Orange, who died a week before
his birth, and Mary, Princess of Orange, the
daughter of King Charles I of England. In
1677, during the reign of his uncle King
Charles II of England, he married his cousin
Mary, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the
King's brother James, Duke of York
Literature
John Milton
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