All of the Following Statements Are True About the New

All of the following statements are true about the new monarchies of the late fifteenth century except:

A) they pursued strategies of centralizing their authority and power.
B) townspeople preferred the increased authority of the new monarchs because parliaments usually served the interests of the nobility.
C) they laid the foundations for the national or territorial state.
D) on the Continent, they used the older precedent of common law to entrench their authority.