James Parliament

Question 1

1604

Answer 1

• Goodwin and Fortescue disagreement
• Shirley’s Case
• Commons proposed to ‘buy out’ the royal right to wardship. The king refused.

Question 2

1606

Answer 2

• Parliament puts pressure on James to be harsher on Catholics. He creates Oath of Allegiance.
• Bate’s Case
• Apology of the House of Commons, asserting their rights.

Question 3

1607

Answer 3

• Proposed union between Scotland and England blocked on legal issues
• Negotiations dealing with purveyance broke down

Question 4

1614

Answer 4

• Addled parliament

- Parliament hostile to Spanish Match talks

Question 5

1615

Answer 5

• Overbury Scandal

- The Cockayne Project

Question 6

1618

Answer 6

-Buckingham no longer needs backers at court

Question 7

1621

Answer 7

-1621 Parliament called

Question 8

1624

Answer 8

-1624 Parliament held

Question 9

Goodwin and Fortescue

Answer 9

• 1604
• disagreement over who was elected for Buckinghamshire
• Fortescue was candidate James and council wanted
• Goodwin was candidate who had been elected
• both sides compromised and a new election was held

Question 10

Shirley’s Case

Answer 10

• 1604
• Shirley (an MP) was arrested for debt
• Parliament sent the Governor of the Fleet debtors’ prison to the tower until Shirley was released
• established that MPs had freedom from arrest while Parliament was sitting

Question 11

Bate’s Case

Answer 11

• 1606
• a london merchant (Bates) refused to pay impositions on an import
• went to Court of Exchequer and Bates lost
• resulted in new set of impositions that could set on imports

Question 12

The Addled Parliament

Answer 12

• 1614
• James called parliament to ask for a subsidy
• the commons presented him with a petition concerning impositions
• no subsidies were voted and parliament wasn’t called again until 1621

Question 13

The Overbury Scandal

Answer 13

• 1615-16
• Robert Carr (Earl of Rochester and royal favourite) had an affair with Lady Essex
• Essex managed to get an annulment of her marriage letting her marry Rochester
• Sir Thomas Overbuy tried to persuade Rochester against it
• James tried to get Overbuy out of the way, first offering an ambassadorship abroad, then when he refused, sending him to the Tower
• Essex sent Overbury a poisoned pie, he died
• Rochester and Essex charged with murdered, James pardoned them
• This lowered respect for James and his court
• Also, allowed Duke of Buckingham to become James’s new favourite