The Petition of Right, 1628
During the reign of Charles I, there was accelerating political
tension concerning the power of Parliament and the 'rights and liberties
of the subject'. In 1628 the House of Commons drafted this petition
proclaiming, among other things, the illegality of taxation without
parliamentary consent and of arbitrary imprisonment. Although Charles
accepted this curtailment of the royal prerogative
and the petition became an Act, he refused to admit that these
were new rights. This episode marked an important step on the road
to the king's experiment in ruling without Parliament, known as the
period of 'personal rule'.HL/PO/PU/1/1627/3C1n2 (1628) |
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