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Why Is Charles 1 Important

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Before the restoration period happened, King Charles the I was trailed and executed in 1649 at the climax of the English civil war Charles the II was then exiled to Europe and spent the next 9 years there. While king Charles the I son was in exile Oliver got this role by defeating Charles II at the battle of Worcester in 1651. The English civil war began 1642-1651 between parlinations known as round heads....... they didn’t agree on how the country was run Cromwell believed that churches should be reformed with much stricter values and laws based on religion and that the parliament should be elected by the people. The royalist king Charles I believed in ................................. The most important events of the war where the trial and execution of king Charles I and the exile of his son Charles II. Then the …show more content…

The classes in restoration times where much like they ae today you had the monarchy which where the royals you had the lords temporal which where the lords and ladies the nobility then the gentlemen freeholders who where the lesser nobility such as knights and gentlemen, then the merchant class who where business men, doctors and lawyers then you got the lower class who where he servants and labourers. In the play “She Stoops to Conquer” it shows a lot of different classes within this such as the Hardcastles the Hardcastles are of a much lower class than for instance Marlow and Hastings, they show this by using different accents so you can clearly tell who is more upper class also you can tell by what they wear. In some of the scenes you see the Hardcastles some what taking the mick out of the much higher class gentlemen for example in the pub seen where Tony tells Marlow and Hastings that they are at the wrong destination and they have really come to the right place. “Its a damn’d long, dark, boggy, dirty, dangerous

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