James I to the Interregnum

James, the first of the Stuarts, narrowly escaped assassination by Catholic conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, but it was a Protestant Parliament which engineered the judicial execution of his son Charles I in 1649, after a bitter Civil War and a military coup. There followed an eleven-year interregnum, in which England was an unhappy republic.

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