![]() ![]() ![]() This Petition said: (a) That it was wrong for anyone to be put to death more than once for the same offence. But so determined were the Roundheads that all this was all wrong that they drew up a Petition called the Petition of Right to show in more detail which things were wrong. (c) Kings were right, and that was right. ![]() (b) Kings were divine, and that was right. Charles explained that there was a doctrine called the Divine Right of Kings, which said that: (a) He was King, and that was right. For a long time before the Civil War, however, Charles had been quarrelling with the Roundheads about what was right. With the ascension of Charles I to the throne we come at last to the Central Period of English History (not to be confused with the Middle Ages, of course), consisting in the utterly memorable Struggle between the Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) and the Roundheads (Right and Repulsive). ![]()
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