BRITISH HISTORY 17TH-19TH CENTURY
BRITISH HISTORY 17TH-19TH
CENTURY
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
☄ When James I became the first English king of the Stuart dynasty, he was
already king of Scotland, so the crowns of these two countries were united.
☄ The kind of Middle English spoken in lowland Scotland had developed into a
written language known as Scots
☄ The Scottish Protestant church adopted English rather than Scots bibles
☄ Religion and politics are inextricably linked
☄ Some people tried to kill the king because he wasn't Catholic enough and
another king had been killed, partly because he seemed too Catholic
☄ Anger grew in the country at the way that the Stuart monarchs raised money
☄ Puritanism- ideological Protestantism
☄ Some of them thought the luxurious lifestyle of the king and his followers was
immoral. They were also fiercely anti-Catholic and suspicious of the apparent