Charles I (Absolute Monarch) (25 июл 1625 г. – 25 июл 1649 г.)

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- son of James I

- marries Catholic wife from France

- money troubles
- war with Spain & France
- raises money through corrupt means: sells offices, shakes down people, holds people without charges to force them to pay money

- eventually has to go to parliament for money: forced to sign Petition of Right

- ignores Petition of Right: dissolves Parliament

- religious trouble
- he is Anglican with a Catholic wife
- Scottish rebel
- has to call Parliament back in order to raise taxes: Parliament wrote a list of demands which upset Charles- he arrested them all and started his own army which starts the civil war

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