An experiment in Absolutism 1629-1640

Question 1

Start of Personal Rule

Answer 1

March 1629

Question 2

Peace with France (Treaty of Susa)

Answer 2

1629

Question 3

Peace with Spain (Treaty of Madrid)

Answer 3

1630

Question 4

Scottish Protestants ordered to kneel for communion annually

Answer 4

1629

Question 5

New Book of Orders issued

Answer 5

1631

Question 6

Wentworth becomes Lord Deputy of Ireland

Answer 6

1633

Question 7

William Laud becomes Archbishop of Canterbury

Answer 7

1633

Question 8

Re-issue of the Jacobean ‘Book of Sports’

Answer 8

1633

Question 9

New ‘Book of Rates’ issued in Ireland

Answer 9

1633

Question 10

Revised ‘Book of Rates’ in England

Answer 10

1635

Question 11

Ship Money levied across England

Answer 11

1635

Question 12

Bishop William Juxon of London becomes Lord Treasurer of England

Answer 12

1636

Question 13

Hampden Case

Answer 13

1637

Question 14

Trial and punishment of Prynne, Bastwick and Burton

Answer 14

1637

Question 15

Book of Common Prayer introduced in Scotland

Answer 15

1637

Question 16

Prayer Book riot in St Giles’ Cathedral

Answer 16

July 1637

Question 17

Scottish National Covenant

Answer 17

Feb 1638

Question 18

General Assembly and Parliament suspend the Prayer Book, Canons and Episcopacy

Answer 18

Nov 1638

Question 19

Oath of Allegiance in York

Answer 19

April 1639

Question 20

Pacification of Berwick

Answer 20

June 1639

Question 21

Wentworth recalled back to England from Ireland

Answer 21

Sept 1639

Question 22

English ‘Short’ Parliament

Answer 22

April - May 1640

Question 23

Covenanters launch a pre-emptive attack on England

Answer 23

July 1640

Question 24

Treaty of Ripon

Answer 24

Sept 1640