Issuing of a monopoly patent for soap by Charles

Question 1

Issuing of a monopoly patent for soap by Charles:

Date

Answer 1

1634

Question 2

Issuing of a monopoly patent for soap by Charles:

Summary

Answer 2

Monopoly licenses = would give one individual or company, the right to dominate production of certain products.

Charles issued a monopoly patent for the production of soap, claiming that it would improve both the quality and the supply.

Question 3

Issuing of a monopoly patent for soap by Charles:

Causation

Answer 3

Charles gave his attention to the Crown’s finances, reorganising the management of Crown lands, adding new impositions to the collection of Tonnage and Poundage and reviving a number of feudal payments, such as fines for building on, or otherwise encroaching on, royal forests. Moreover, the practice of selling monopoly licenses was revived, the distraint of knighthood, an annual levy of ship money was introduced across the country.

Question 4

Issuing of a monopoly patent for soap by Charles:

Consequence

Answer 4

Generated considerable resentment and became the subject of public debate in 1641, when opponents claimed that many people had been driven out of business and prices to the public had significantly increased in order to benefit the king’s revenues.

Also monopoly granted to Catholics so alienated Protestant Parliament.