Arthur, hello
.....this all sounds very interesting, as Manchester was, for some reason I do not yet fully understand and unusually amidst Lancashire townships, in favour of Parliament against the King, in those times of terrible unrest
I do not know who the Royal protagonists were in those days, or their relations with religious leaders
It appears that dear Maggie Thatcher wasn't the only one to levy a 'Poll Tax', (a tax upon the population according to the means of each individual to pay, as determined by designated officials examining everyone's personal business)
I seem to remember this "Eve of Civil War" 'Poll Tax' was to be levied to pay Scottish forces and an Archbishop of Canterbury (? William Laud) was impeached somewhere along the line, but my mind grows dim.......
Wasn't there also a certain Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, put to death ??