Chapter 6　The Bourgeois Revolution

In the tast years of Elizabeth’s reign，the long working agreement between Crown and Parliament was turning into strained relations.This situation was created chiefly by the change of economic strength of different classes.In the early years of the 17th century，the bourgeoisie through enclosures and foreign plunder had gained economic supremacy in England，but in politics they were still under the control of the feudal nobles with the king as the head.The economic interests coincided with the religious divisions.The more extreme kind of Protestantism known as Puritanism suited the mentality of the bourgeoisie.So the emotional fervor which later led to the Civil War was the religious fervor，even when the disagreements might in fact be practical issues of politics or economics.