By Thomas Bainbridge The ‘Bishops’ Wars’ of 1639 and 1640 were fought over the divergences of religious policy between Charles I and his Scottish subjects. The former intended to impose his own crypto-Catholic forms of worship on to the Scottish Church. However, the Presbyterian Scots, rabidly opposing all alterations made to the Kirk, signed the National … Continue reading Battle of Newburn: The Scots Invade Northumberland and Occupy Newcastle