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Chapter VI The Bourgeois Revolution The Absolutist Rule of the Stuarts James I (1603—1625) Charles I (1625—1649) The Commonwealth The Restoration and the “Glorious Revolution” The Absolutist Rule of the Stuarts 1. The reign of James I (1603—1625) a. refuse the Presbyterianism. b. his despotism c. on Nov. 5, 1605 , the Guy Fawkes Day. (P241) d. The Authorized Version of the Bible 《钦定圣经译本》 Guy Fawkes (1570 -1606) conspired in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up King James the First and members of both Houses of Parliament. He was arrested in the cellar below the House on November 4, 1605 tortured and executed. Guy Fawkes Day is still celebrated in Britain every year with bonfires, fireworks and the burning of the ‘guy’ usually a grotesque effigy. Recollections of the Fifth of November 1853 Surely there never was a phoenix so incombustible as Guy Fawkes ! Regularly, once a year, he rises from his ashes, parades through the streets in triumphal procession, attends several public meetings, at all of which he takes the chair and then when the evening closes in, he warms his toes over a friendly fire and cracks his venerable sides with a number of good things and generally retires about ten oclock, after having spent a very jolly evening, during which everything has gone off as pleasantly as possible. Extract from Illustrated London News 1853 2. The reign of Charles I (1625—1649） 1) He brought himself into violent disagreement with parliament. In 1629, he dissolved parliament; In 1640, he summoned it—the Short Parliament for 3 weeks. In 1640, he called Parliament once more---the Long Parliament, lasted until 1653. 2) the two Civil Wars the first Civil War