England in the XVII century

In the XVII century, industry became the most important economic activity and most usual occupation of Englishmen.

The manufacture of woollen cloth, which had begun much earlier, remained the principal English industry throughout the XVII century and the most valuable source of exports.

The majority of English yeomen, who earned their living from trade, did well enough and were pretty prosperous in the XVII century.

The new gentry, which had already been reinforced in the XVI century with the dissolution of monasteries, was further powerfully strengthened in this century as a result of changes in land ownership after the civil war.

According to Maurice Ashley, in the struggle between Parliament and Crown, it was the King that threw out the challenge and demanded that Parliament should submit to a modification of its traditional rights.

Which of the following does not represent a parliamentary demand?

The Stuarts were absolute monarchs who supported the political dogma of divine hereditary right and rejected any checks on their power.

The geographical discoveries, the new cosmology, technological inventions, a renewed and secular metaphysic and the new feudal economic relations, were some of the factors that made their contributions to the formation of liberal ideas.

Early liberalism was for toleration in religion, for constitutional government in the sphere of politics, for state intervention in the economic realm, and for the supremacy of the law in the legal field.

Early liberalism valued commerce and industry, favoured the rising middle class rather than the monarchy and aristocracy, and had immense respect for the rights of property, especially when accumulated by the labours of the individual possessor.