The refusal of the General Assembly of Scotland in November 1638 to dissolve upon the demand of the King’s commissioner has been compared to that of the French National Assembly in 1789, when for the first time they resisted the royal will. The facts and circumstances no doubt were different; but both events led by unbroken chains of causation to the same end, namely, the solemn beheading of the King.

Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Sp…, loc. 1009