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The '''Personal Rule''' (also known as the '''Eleven Years' Tyranny''') was the period from 1629 to 1640, when King [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] of [[England]], [[Scotland]] and [[Ireland]] ruled without recourse to [[Parliament of England|Parliament]]. The King was entitled to do this under the [[Royal Prerogative in the United Kingdom|Royal Prerogative]]. His actions caused discontent among
Charles had already dissolved three Parliaments by the third year of his reign in 1628. After the murder of [[George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham|George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham]], who was deemed to have a negative influence on Charles' foreign policy, Parliament began to criticize the king more harshly than before. Charles then realized that, as long as he could avoid war, he could rule without Parliament.
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On the other side of the ledger, the government tried to reduce expenditure, especially by avoiding war (thus pursuing an [[isolationist]] foreign policy) and also avoiding large-scale innovations on the domestic front. Of equal importance, Charles learned to spend less extravagantly compared to his father.
Despite the King's unconventional methods of raising money, the absence of Parliamentary taxation limited the tax burden during the Personal Rule. This combined with the country's avoidance of the Thirty Years' War that was ravaging Europe made the 1630s a time of relative prosperity in England compared to the Continent, which in turn helped to make the Personal Rule popular with the common people, who had no political influence with parliaments in any case. Charles became especially popular with commoners in rural areas, this not coincidentally being the constituency where the King would find his most reliable support in the coming Civil War.{{fact}}<!--So the KING was popular, because he didn't raise taxes, because the OPPOSITION didn't allow him to raise taxes? Also, several of the "extraordinary" taxes should have affected the population in general, including "the common people".-->
==End of the Personal Rule==
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