In 1642, the
King entered Parliament with 300 soldiers to arrest these five.
They had flown, but Parliament was shocked that the King had
threatened the liberties of Parliament with military force. The
citizens of London, in their fear of popery, rose in arms against
the King, who left the city. Both sides raised big armies. The
goal of the Parliamentarians was to capture the King alive and
force him to concessions.
When the Parliamentarians took Oxford in 1648, they purged its
faculty of royalists.
- The Law -
From 1625 to 1627 these statutes were passed:
No one shall engage in sports or any pastimes outside his own
parish or bearbaiting, bullbaiting, interludes, plays or other
unlawful pastimes inside his parish on Sundays because such has
led to quarrels and bloodshed and nonattendance at church. The
fine is 3s.4d. or if the offender does not have the money or goods
to sell to pay, he shall be set in the public stocks for three
hours.
No carrier with any horse or wagon or cart or drover with cattle
may travel on Sunday or forfeit 20s.
No butcher may kill or sell any victual on Sunday or forfeit
6s.8d.
Every innkeeper, alehousekeeper, and other victualler permitting a
patron who is not an inhabitant of the area to become drunk shall
forfeit 5s. or be place in the stocks for six hours. Offenders
convicted a second time shall be bound by two sureties to the sum
of 200s.
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