1640-1642 The build up to war

Question 1

Short Parliament meets

Answer 1

April 1640

Question 2

Short Parliament dissolved

Answer 2

May 1640

Question 3

Second Bishops’ War

Answer 3

August 1640

Scots take Newcastle and occupy the six northern counties.

Question 4

Treaty of Ripon

Answer 4

October 1640

£850 per day to Scots for occupation of Durham and Northumberland + as payment for not moving south. Forces Charles to call a Parliament to meet the payment demands.

Question 5

Long Parliament meets

Answer 5

November 1640

Question 6

Impeachment of royal ministers

Answer 6

December 1640

Laud imprisoned in the Tower, Strafford impeached, Finch and Windebank fled abroad.

Question 7

Triennial Act

Answer 7

February 1641

A parliament must be called at least three years after the dissolution of its predecessor. Takes away royal prerogative to call parliament only when needed.

Question 8

Execution of Strafford

Answer 8

12th May 1641

Used Act of Attainder, legally dubious but passed due to pressure from the London Mob and the Lord’s belief Charles wouldn’t sign.

Question 9

Peace with Scotland

Answer 9

August 1641

Parliament didn’t trust Charles not to ask the Scots for an army so sent Commissioners to keep an eye on him.

Question 10

Outbreak of Irish rebellion

Answer 10

October 1641

4000 Protestants were massacred and maybe 8000 killed by winter after native Catholics rebelled in the absence of Strafford.

Question 11

Grand Remonstrance passed

Answer 11

November 1641

Breaks anti-court consensus (passed only by 159:148) and polarizes parliament.

Question 12

Five Members Coup

Answer 12

5th January 1642

Charles attempted to arrest Pym, Haselrig, Hampden, Holles and Strode with 300 armed guards but they’d been tipped off. Breached Parliamentary privilege and proved Charles couldn’t be trusted.

Question 13

Militia Ordinance passed by parliament

Commission of Array called by King

Answer 13

March 1642
Illegally legislated and allowed the raising of Parliamentary forces.
Commission of Array just as legally dubious,

Question 14

Nineteen Propositions issued and rejected

Answer 14

June 1642

Radical propositions would have effectively made Charles a modern constitutional monarch. Parliament would have had control of Foreign Policy, the Army, Charles’s ministers and even the education and marriage of his children.

Question 15

Charles Raises his standard and starts The First Civil War.

Answer 15

22nd August 1642 at Nottingham

Question 16

Destruction of the machinery of Personal Rule

Answer 16

Summer 1641

Question 17

Death of the Earl of Bedford

Answer 17

May 1641

Bedford was a moderate MP had good relations with the King and Parliament (including Pym). He could have formed a bridge.

Question 18

The Ten Propositions (sidelined by Charles)

Answer 18

June 1641

Parliament wants to choose the King’s ministers.

Question 19

Root and Branch Petition begins to fracture the anti-court consensus in…

Answer 19

February 1641

Calls for abolition of episcopacy