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.. wherein one Emperor lost his life, and another his crown". The BigEndian/LittleEndian controversy reflects, in a much simplified form, British quarrels over religion. England had been, less than 200 years previously, a Catholic (BigEndian) country; but a series of reforms beginning in the 1530s under King Henry VIII (ruled 15091547), Edward VI (1547­ 1553), and Queen Elizabeth I (1558­1603) had converted most of the country to Protestantism (Little Endianism), in the episcopalian form of the Church of England. At the same time, revolution and reform in Scotland (1560) had also converted that country to Presbyterian Protestantism, which led to fresh difficulties when England and Scotland were united under one ruler, James I (1603­1625). Religiously inspired revolts and rebellions followed, in which, indeed, one king, Charles I (1625­1649) lost his life, and his son James II lost his crown and fled to France (1685­1688). Some of these