Charles i

Question 1

1626-1629

Answer 1

Squabble with Parliament over religious and financial issues, no contact for 11 years.
(Period known as Personal Rule).

Question 2

1633

Answer 2

Will Laud Archbishop Of Canterbury. Brings in reforms like Catholicism.

Question 3

1634

Answer 3

Charles expands ‘Ship Money’ Tax without consulting Parliament.

Question 4

1637

Answer 4

Leading Purtians William Prynne, Henry Burton and John Batswick are mutilated for criticising Laud’s Reforms.

Question 5

1637-1639

Answer 5

Charles tries to inroduce a new prayer book to the Scots, they don’t like this, they fight him and them destroy him.

Question 6

1640

Answer 6

He calls Parliament to pay for the damages from the Scottish, they complain to him about the past 11 years, he sends them away, the Scottish situation gets worse so he calls them back, they stay in session until 1660.
(Period called ‘Long Parliament’).

Question 7

1641

Answer 7

Parliament passes the Triennial Act, which means the King has to call them more.

Question 8

October 1641

Answer 8

Violence breaks out between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, Charles tries to raise money to fund an army to deal with the issue, but Parliament signs the Grand Remonstrance - a list of complaints about Charles.

Question 9

January 1642

Answer 9

Charles tries to arrest 5 MPs under his suspicion of their plotting against him. He failed and had to flee London.

Question 10

August 1642

Answer 10

Charles raises his Royal Flag, ‘Standard’, in Nottingham to summon an Army to fight Parliament - the Civil War begins.