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CHARLES I.
The reign of Charles I.opened with every sign of the tempests which were to follow.

England and Scotland were both seething with religious fears and hatreds.

Both parties in England, Puritans and Anglicans, could be satisfied with nothing less than complete domination.

In England the extreme Puritans, with their yearning after the Genevan presbyterian discipline, had been threatening civil war even under Elizabeth.