Chapter 17b Flashcards
Who were the Cabal?
When was the Cabal in power?
Charles’ advisors
16676-74
Clarendon fall allowed for rise of new advisors
What was the system of ruling with the Cabal?
What was it’s 2 fundamental aims?
System divided/lacked synergy
Toleration of Catholics & dissenters
Alliance w/ France
(unpopular - extreme prejudice to Caths)
By 1647 (end of Cabal) what was the royal income down to?
£647,000
What happened to religious freedom during the Cabal?
What increased religious threat was there?
What laws were restored against Caths?
Restricted
Popery, esp Anglo-French attack on Dutch
Penal laws
When was P adjourned during the Cabal?
1673
Following the Test Act
What ended the Cabal’s influence?
1674 downfall of Buckingham & Arlington
Who were the members of the Cabal?
Clifford
Arlington
Buckingham
Ashley
Lauderdale
Crown & P relations up to 1674:
2nd Dutch war
3rd Dutch war
Plague
Great Fire of London
1665-67
1672-74
1665
1666
By the end of the Cabal, why was money low?
What were P attitudes to religious freedom?
Crown mismanagement
Sought to limit it
When was the royal Declaration of Indulgence?
What was it?
During p of 1672-74
Charles attempt to extend religious liberty to Prot non-conformists & Catholics
When was the test Act?
What was it?
1673, during Cavallier p session of 1672-74
Required everyone of public service in Eng to deny Catholic doctrines & take Angelical communion
When was the Earl of Danby in power?
Emerged 1673
1674-78
What kind of court did Danby build on?
Royalist
How did Danby initially strengthen crown & p position?
More inline with p views: rigid in his C of E Protestantism (at least not a Cath C advisor)
Forged links w/ p through patronage: had 30 MPs receiving crown payments
How did Danby improve royal finances?
Withdrew from 3rd Dutch war
1674-77 royal income £1.4 mill a year (crown debt still increased by £750,000)
How did Danby increase fears of absolutism?
His control/management: 1675 bill to ban uprisings, ‘taking up arms’ was defected
What was a limitation to Danby improving royal finances?
Couldn’t control C spending
When was p parogued then dissolved?
Why?
Jan 1679
Danby threatened to be impeached
Why was Danby threatened w/ impeachment?
Knew C kept relations w/ Louis XIV
Way for p to attack C
When was the Cavalier p called back into session?
When was it dissolved?
1677
March 1679
What p increased p influence?
What p increased C influence?
Convention, 1660 Apr - Nov
Cavallier, 1661-79
Who was put in the tower of London during the 1677 recalled Cavalier p?
Shaftesbury & Buckingham
What happened to the Navy in wake of French success in Dutch war?
When was the Anglo-Dutch treaty?
Navy funding increased by £600,000
1677
Why was there increased opp to Danby by 1678?
Influence over C & the ‘court party’
What were the 4 steps to the restoration of monarchy?
Resignation of R Cromwell
Battle between radicals & moderates
Restoration of Rump/Long p
Declaration of Breda = restoration
