The fact that London was parliamentarian rather than royalist was
one of the principal reasons for the defeat of Charles I in the
English Civil War. This book reinterprets London's role. It
examines the relation of the municipality and of the City fathers
as business magnates with both of the early Stuart kings and their
parliaments, and explores the business connections of the City with
the royal court, concluding that, far from being the natural allies
of the king and court as is generally assumed, the City elite had
mostly been seriously alienated from them by 1640. Professor Ashton
offers an interpretation not only of the City's role in the years
before 1640 but also of the reasons lying behind its support for
parliament in 1642. It is both a contribution to the debate on the
origins of the Civil War and a study in depth of the connection
between big business and politics in early Stuart England.
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