Century of chaos: people & power in the 1600s
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The History of Public Petitions
On average, every single family in England in the 1600 was involved in about one lawsuit per year. There's also a very rich tradition of popular protests in this period. The important thing is that people are getting political opinions much more so than they had before. And this makes things much more difficult to govern.
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