Nicholas and Charles' Argument for the King

Edward Nicholas started with what I might once have called low-hanging fruit. He and Henrietta Maria identified two groups, a dozen disaffected lay peers and an equal number of bishops. Charles was conscious he needed also to give them confidence. The appointments he made were all impeccably Calvinist. And the new party began to acquire some new notches in its belt. That notch might come from the city of London. Since the start of the Bishops' Wars, the city corporation had been firmly on the side of Parliament. But the annual elections for the mayor were coming up; outgoing Puritan mayor hoped to hand over to pro-Junto Thomas Sohn.