This brand of authoritarian monarchy had always been resisted in England, as far back as the early thirteenth century when the barons and lords had forced concessions from the crown in the shape of the Magna Carta.
这种专制君主制在英国一直受到抵制,早在十三世纪初, 贵族领主就以《大宪章》的形式迫使王室做出让步。