Literally the only serious secular grievance against King Charles was that he was fighting enclosure. Everything else was religious idiocy over petty shit like rails on the alters.
Dat extraparliamentary revenue tho. If he could gain the majority of his revenue without parliament, he would in effect be an absolute monarch.
>>1396897
He couldn't, that's why he called them.
>>1396897
Also, it wasn't the majority of his revenue, it was the entirety of it as long as parliament wasn't being held.