During the late 1600’s England was going through a power struggle of who was going to be appointed the next King of England after the death of Charles II. In the events of 1688 and 1689 known as the Glorious Revolution, Mary and Prince William of Orange took the throne instead of James II who was the brother of Charles. Those events resulted on heated arguments between the proponents and the opponents of those events. One of the people who publicly supported James II legitimacy to the throne was Thomas Cartwright. Thomas Cartwright was a bishop of the Church of England and he was a big supporter of the divine right of Kings. Cartwright passionately stated that religion “sets the crown fast and easy upon the King’s head, without catechizing
