The English Civil Wars: Conflict Between Charles I And Parliament

According to History.com, The English Civil Wars began from conflict between Charles I and Parliament. The first war lasted from 1642 to 1645, the second lasted from 1648 to 1649, civil wars put the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, and the third lasted from 1649 to 1651. They saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament. The third war ended with the Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Worcester on September 3, 1651.
Charles I wanted to unite the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland into one single kingdom, but many English parliaments were suspicious of this move. They didn’t want the new kingdom Charles I wanted to start, to destroy old English
He started raising revenue in England. Without Parliamentary consent, this was illegal. Many people knew this, so they refused to pay any of the taxes he came up with. The end of Charles’ independent government came when he attempted to apply his religious policies in Scotland. The Church of Scotland, although Episcopalian in structure, had long enjoyed its own independent traditions. Charles, however, wanted one uniform church throughout Britain and introduced a new, High Anglican version of the English Book of Common Prayer into Scotland in the summer of 1637. This met with a violent reaction. A riot broke out in Edinburgh, and in February 1638 the Scots' objections to royal policy were formulated in the National Covenant. (New World Encyclopedia). Wars broke out and Charles was eventually forced to agree not only not to interfere with religion in Scotland, but to pay the Scottish war expenses as
If he didn’t pay, they’d take the money by pillaging and burning the cities in Northern England. With all this going on, Charles decided to regain a Parliament. According to NewWorldEncyclopedia.com, All this put Charles in a desperate financial position. As King of Scotland, he was required to find money to pay the Scottish army in England, and as king of England, to find money to pay and equip an English army to defend England. His means of raising revenue without Parliament were critically short of being able to achieve this. It was against this backdrop and according to advice from the Magnum Concilium (the House of Lords, but without the British House of Commons, so not a Parliament), that Charles finally bowed to pressure and summoned Parliament for November.
The new Parliament was worse than the first. A law was passed which stated that a new Parliament should convene at least once every three years, without the king's summons if necessary. Other laws passed by the Parliament made it illegal for the king to impose taxes without Parliamentary consent, and later, gave Parliament control over the king's ministers. Finally, the Parliament passed a law forbidding the king to dissolve it without its consent, even if the three years were up. This Parliament has been known as the "Long Parliament.” (Encyclopedia