Why did people go to war in 1642?

Case study 2: 1640-42 - Source 8

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Voluntary payments to help Charles I’s armies, June 1642

(Catalogue ref: SP 16/491/29)

[Extra explanations are in square brackets.]

We, whose names are written underneath, volunteer to pay the following amounts to assist his Majesty in defence of
his royal person,
the two houses of Parliament,
the Protestant religion,
the laws of the land,
the freedom and order of his subjects,
and the privileges of Parliament,
when his Majesty authorises with the great seal the raising of forces for those purposes [to fight] against all power and forces raised for any reason whatsoever. …

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