1: Monarchs and Parliament, 1603-1629 Flashcards
1) What were the main sources of the Crown’s ordinary revenue? (3 points)
Crown lands, feudal dues, wardship and purveyance, customs duties (impositions)
2) What two theories underpinned the theoretical justification for the power of the monarchy and the structure and
order of early-modern society? (2 points)
Divine Right of Kings + Great Chain of Being
3) How did James offend (or appear to interfere with) parliamentary privilege in 1604?
Challenged Goodwin’s
electoral victory (because he was an outlaw)
4) Which Treaty did James succeed in negotiating in 1604?
Treaty of London
5) Which Latin term did James use to present his foreign policy?
Rex Pacifus
6) Which ambitious project between England and Scotland did James attempt (and fail) to pass through parliament at
the beginning of his reign?
Perfect Union
7) How did Robert Cecil (Lord Treasurer) attempt to increase royal revenue in 1608?
Updated Book of Rates
8) Name 3 reasons why the Great Contract of 1610 failed (3 points)
James emphasis on Divine Right, Parliament’s demand that James raise more revenue from Catholics, James ability
to gain a £100,000 loan from City of London, the original figure was reduced to just £200p/a
9) Which scandal in 1614-1616 brought disgrace to James’ favourite Robert Carr?
Overbury
10)What is the name of the 1614 parliament?
Addled
11) Name 4 ways James and Charles attempted to raise revenue without parliament between 1614 and 1629 (3
points)
Cockayne Project, selling titles, Benevolence (forced loan), monopolies
12) Why did the 30 years war begin in 1618?
Protestant Elector Frederick’s election to Palatinate Kingdom of Bohemia was challenged by Catholic Habsburg
Empire (Holy Roman Empire)
13) What did James tear out of the Commons Journal in 1621?
Protestation
14) Which two individuals were impeached by Parliament in 1621?
Mompesson, Francis Bacon
15) What hated financial measure did the Commons pass a statute against in 1624?
Monopolies
16) Which two failed military expeditions did Buckingham lead between 1625-1629?
Cadiz 1625, La Rochelle 1627
17) Why was Charles’ decision to chose Laud to preach the opening sermon to parliament in 1626 a political
mistake?
He was an Arminian
18) Name three things attacked by the Petition of Right in 1628 (3 points)
Charles raising of revenue without parliament, interference with habeas corpus, billeting of troops
19) How did Parliament defy Charles when he dissolved the body in 1629?
Held speaker down and passed Three Resolutions
How much had Crown debt increased by between 1603-1629?
£300/400,000 to £2m
21) Which quote about James I has stuck and shaped the Orthodox (negative accounts) interpretation of James I?
“Wisest foolin Christendom”
22) Which historians are now kinder to James I?
Revisionist
23) According to Marxist historians (like Christopher Hill) why did the relationship between Crown and Parliament
worsen between 1603 and 1629?
Economic and social change – growing economy undermined feudal basis of monarch’s income and increased wealth
of merchants and bankers who tended to move toward Puritanism
24)According to Whig historians why did the relationship between Crown and Parliament worsen between 1603 and
1629?
The Stuarts threatened to rule as Catholic Absolute monarch’s without respecting the rights of the people
