The Influence Of Charles's Personal Rule
To what extent does Charles’s personal rule reveal a plan to “Uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will? !
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When Charles I ascended to the throne in March 1625, he had inherited a Britain which had thrived on its communication with the king and of a fairer rule. Charles however went against this in the introduction of the Personal Rule where he had taken away any form of communication to the government away from the people and planned to rule without any help or influence from other views. !
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One of the biggest factors of Charles’s personal rule which reveals his intentions is his control of finances. Charles decided from 1629 not to call Parliament, due to the new type of intelligent gentlemen who …show more content…
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The fact that Charles had made it very difficult for any advice which went against his own view shows how Charles planned to maintain unlimited power. Charles had the belief of Divine Right which would have been expected, however Charles had taken this view to further extremes than previous Monarchs by not allowing any advice to be given to him which would go against his own view. He achieved this by appointing advisors who would share the similar views to him. An example of how Charles appointing people who shared similar views to him rather than in the interest of the general public would be the appointment of William Laud to the position of
Archbishop of the Church of England who was arminian whilst the general majority of England were Puritan. Charles had even blocked out the views of the general public by making it very difficult for them to access him in his Court. Many monarchs allowed the public to show their feelings to the Monarch in the courts but Charles had no interested in them so made the public have to go through a series of rooms before they could even reach Charles so on whole was ignoring any advice of the public either.!
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When Charles I ascended to the throne in March 1625, he had inherited a Britain which had thrived on its communication with the king and of a fairer rule. Charles however went against this in the introduction of the Personal Rule where he had taken away any form of communication to the government away from the people and planned to rule without any help or influence from other views. !
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One of the biggest factors of Charles’s personal rule which reveals his intentions is his control of finances. Charles decided from 1629 not to call Parliament, due to the new type of intelligent gentlemen who …show more content…
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The fact that Charles had made it very difficult for any advice which went against his own view shows how Charles planned to maintain unlimited power. Charles had the belief of Divine Right which would have been expected, however Charles had taken this view to further extremes than previous Monarchs by not allowing any advice to be given to him which would go against his own view. He achieved this by appointing advisors who would share the similar views to him. An example of how Charles appointing people who shared similar views to him rather than in the interest of the general public would be the appointment of William Laud to the position of
Archbishop of the Church of England who was arminian whilst the general majority of England were Puritan. Charles had even blocked out the views of the general public by making it very difficult for them to access him in his Court. Many monarchs allowed the public to show their feelings to the Monarch in the courts but Charles had no interested in them so made the public have to go through a series of rooms before they could even reach Charles so on whole was ignoring any advice of the public either.!