From Ollie to Charlie (title courtesy of concussed Erin Feith)

Yes she is alive, but unfortunately, Oliver Cromwell is not... 

So honestly, how the heck did we go from Cromwell to Charles II? Basically, Parliament was mad bc they had thought they would rule together under Cromwell, but haha jokes on them, Cromwell established a military dictatorship! AKA the parliament didn't have any power.

So, after dear ole Ollie passes away, Richard Cromwell takes over but he gets kicked out and CHARLES II takes over the crown. 

You ask why did the parliament restore the monarchy? Yeah you got me... it was most likely because they didn't really like oliver very much, so i guess a monarchy was better? idk who understands parliament anyway.

Why was the civil war even fought? like the goal was to get rid of the monarchy right?  These are the questions we must ask ourselves in these dire times.

One important before we into how bad charles was at being king, the cabal

cabal is like the present day secretaries of war, state, etc --> the cabinet!

they are ministers between the king and the commons. they are held responsible to the commons and have to listen to them, not just the king. Basically, they were the ones that had to answer to the commons about what the king was doing. 

This is the first time ministerial responsibility became a thing! yay!!

Charles II and James II --> why were they so terrible that the glorious revolution occurred??

well... ya see, charles ii was only in partying  

IS today my birthday?

He was pretty indifferent towards religious issues, probably the only thing he should have been interested in bc THAT WAS THE ISSUE THAT WAS TEARING ENGLAND APART??!?!?!

ANYWAY, Charles makes a deal with parliament as we said, but parliament was annoying, and didn't keep their side of the deal, so Charles was FORCED (not actually but ya know, I pity him) to make a deal with Louis XIV for money.

IN return he only promised to make england catholic again, NBD

WELL, the Puritans freak out

ALSO v important --> Charles had no legitimate heirs (AKA he only had bastard children) so James II takes over.    

James II screws things up even more, aka by being CATHOLIC (no one likes us anymore :( 

also lol he's the leader of the church of england, but he's catholic? okay, lmk 

Two things happen to make glorious revolution occur:

1. proclamation of indulgence (admissible bc as I said he's the head of the church of england) which 

gives a pardon to all catholics (he even hired some in the government --> against test act of 1763 and very bad for the puritans) 

2. his wife has a non-bastard child (a son) and thus James had an heir and the catholic monarchy was presumed to be permanent 

HAHA JOKES BC JAMES GETS KICKED OUT AND DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!!!

 guess who takes over??

"OOOOO, Mary, William, Mary AND william, William and Mary!" - Erin Feith ladies and gentleman. (yes i did just make gentlemen singular)

THIS IS KNOWN AS GLORIOUS REVOLUTION - BLOODLESS REVOLUTION

- do they invade england --> umm no bc william and mary were invited into england by puritans/protestants so yarn you haven't been lying to freshmen for years

yarn for past years when he thought he was lying to freshmen

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P.S. ERIN IS STILL CONCUSSED BUT SHE CONTRIBUTED TO MY BLOG
ALSO SORRY FOR BEING A TERRIBLE PERSON DURING CLASS. HOPE MY DONUTS MADE UP FOR IT.