... need to be considered with respect to the causes of the war, as well as the results and the combat itself. If the war was indeed one of religion, Anglicans versus Puritans, then the evidence encountered needs to fulfil two requirements. Those fighting for politics alone were in the minority and those fighting for religion were doing so truly and not to further their political motives. After the relative political calm of Elizabeth I's reign, the years that ensued were a constant power struggle between the king and his subjects. Neither was trying to rid the other of power entirely, but simply establish each other's limits. During the reign of James I, Edward Coke asserted that Law was not the instrument, but the boundary of royal prerogative. This is a political stance until it is realised that as Henry VIII had argued, James argued that as king he was divinely ...

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