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... James I and Charles I , regarded attempts to change the doctrine and organisation of the national church as part of a political struggle for power : who controlled the Church would control the nation . A year after the accession of James ...
... James I and Charles I , regarded attempts to change the doctrine and organisation of the national church as part of a political struggle for power : who controlled the Church would control the nation . A year after the accession of James ...
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... James I was himself generally Calvinist in theology , he was determined to uphold the existing system of episcopacy in which the monarch was supreme governor of the Church , and by 1607 James had forced bishops upon the Scottish Church ...
... James I was himself generally Calvinist in theology , he was determined to uphold the existing system of episcopacy in which the monarch was supreme governor of the Church , and by 1607 James had forced bishops upon the Scottish Church ...
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... James II appoints Catholics to Army and Privy Council Charles Cotton ( d . ) Henry More ( d . ) Edmund Waller ( d . ) James suspends laws against Catholics and Non - Conformists Trial of seven bishops Orange sails for England James ...
... James II appoints Catholics to Army and Privy Council Charles Cotton ( d . ) Henry More ( d . ) Edmund Waller ( d . ) James suspends laws against Catholics and Non - Conformists Trial of seven bishops Orange sails for England James ...
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