ABSTRACT
The reference to ‘trust’ was surely significant: the fundamental cause of the growing tensions between Charles I and his parliament, or sections of it, was a perceived breakdown of trust on both sides. Charles’s decision to resummon Parliament after an eleven-year interlude was a momentous one. As the Privy Council loan had yielded very little, and the City of London baulked at providing the requested loan of £100,000, Charles’s financial hopes and needs really were staked on the meeting of his English Parliament. The adversarial tone was reminiscent of the words used to the parliaments of 1626 and 1629, and emphasised the extent to which Charles’s constitutional attitudes, and those of his advisers, continued to be influenced by those bitter experiences. The adversarial tone was reminiscent of the words used to the parliaments of 1626 and 1629, and emphasised the extent to which Charles’s constitutional attitudes, and those of his advisers, continued to be influenced by those bitter experiences.
