Charles I tried to make local govt. – incl. Poor Relief and justice – work better, partly by forcing gentry and nobility to take their local duties more seriously and spend less time in London (see Sharp’s book about Charles’ Personal Rule); but I doubt that his plans included even the most rudimentary health service.
Mary, my congratulations. Entering my fifth decade of article reading and this must qualify as one of the most lazy pieces of writing. Not even a review of a review. Rather a distant echo, a distorted reverberation of what I could read as originally published elsewhere.
Do you get paid for this – at least d**k Turpin had manners enough to wear a mask.
Dr Irene Lancaster
3 years ago
Isn’t it funny that everyone thinks Jews are this country’s moneybags, with no other redeeming feature. In fact the first Jews allowed in by Cromwell were impoverished Portuguese outcasts who had first settled in Holland. Cromwell allowed them in to fulfil the prophesy in Deuteronomy that Jews would spiritually prosper England – the last place they inhabited after their earlier expulsion in 1290. And their leader, Menasseh ben Israel, didn’t even leave adequate funds for his burial.
Charles I tried to make local govt. – incl. Poor Relief and justice – work better, partly by forcing gentry and nobility to take their local duties more seriously and spend less time in London (see Sharp’s book about Charles’ Personal Rule); but I doubt that his plans included even the most rudimentary health service.
Why then does Mount claim that Charles did plan such a service? Is he simply making that up? I doubt it.
I can’t find evidence of it, though I can’t access Kevin Sharpe’s book either at the moment which is where I would expect it to be likely to feature.
The greatest Englishman before Thomas Paine?
Prefer Antonia Fraser,s version of events
Bit lightweight don’t you think?
Mary, my congratulations. Entering my fifth decade of article reading and this must qualify as one of the most lazy pieces of writing. Not even a review of a review. Rather a distant echo, a distorted reverberation of what I could read as originally published elsewhere.
Do you get paid for this – at least d**k Turpin had manners enough to wear a mask.
Isn’t it funny that everyone thinks Jews are this country’s moneybags, with no other redeeming feature. In fact the first Jews allowed in by Cromwell were impoverished Portuguese outcasts who had first settled in Holland. Cromwell allowed them in to fulfil the prophesy in Deuteronomy that Jews would spiritually prosper England – the last place they inhabited after their earlier expulsion in 1290. And their leader, Menasseh ben Israel, didn’t even leave adequate funds for his burial.