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Parliament Flashcards

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No. parliamentary sessions used to grant revenue

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11/13

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Function of parliament

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Finance
Legislation (‘rubber stamp’ J Lingaard)
Point of communication between crown and nation

Called, prorogued and dissolved by monarch

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No. Acts passed

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438: divisions exception

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Act of Exchange

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1559: right to exchange church property in EI possession for temporal property in church possession

Reduced wealth of church, increased wealth of crown

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Marian bishops deprived

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1559: replaced with sympathetic replacements - links to Act of Exchange

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Subsidy requests

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1571, 1576, 1581

Financially favourable timing: no bad harvests until 1485

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Monopolies

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1597-01

First ignored. Conceded to Parliament 1601 promising to cancel and suspend some monopolies and investigate

Always present - ‘free patronage’ - issue result of socioeconomic unrest

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Monopolies

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1597-01

First ignored. Conceded to Parliament 1601 promising to cancel and suspend some monopolies and investigate

Always present - ‘free patronage’ - issue result of socioeconomic unrest

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Monopolies Crisis: historiography

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NEALE: clear evidence of organised rebellion against EI misuse of royal prerogative

GRAVES: spontaneous response to common grievance

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Marriage/ succession

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1563, 1566-67

Vetoed subject

Revisionist: pressure from Privvy Council; 1562 smallpox scare, petition drafted by council members, Cecil organised joint delegation

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Monopolies: historiography

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NEALE: Clear evidence of organised rebellion in Commons

GRAVES: “spontaneous response to a common grievance voiced by the governing class through its representatives” rather than any organised resistance or rebellion

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Prerogative: Marriage/ succession

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1563, 1566-67: to fund foreign policy

Revisionist: pressure from Privy Council rather than Parliament – smallpox scare, petition drafted by members of Council, Cecil behind joint delegation to the Queen, 1566

Veto: EI in control

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Prerogative: Mary, Queen of Scots

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1571, 1574-5, 1576-7: acted as a pressure group

1571: Parliament prorogued

NEALE: parliament used to promote own agenda - anti-Catholicism

Revisionist: Opposition from Privy Councillors in the Commons taking lead (Hatton, 1565)

EI refused to bow to pressure and would not commit herself until ‘Stafford Plot’

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Privilege: Defence of freedom speech, Wentworth 1576

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NEALE: leader of puritan opposition; Commons emerging as champion of parliamentary liberties

GRAVES: Wentworth “foolhardy, impetuous and politically inept”; no hero at the time. Merely nuisance

Imprisonment, Tower of London voted by Commons

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Strickland Bill

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1571

Reform of the Book of Common Prayer

Removed from Commons

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Field’s Admonition to Parliament

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1572

NEALE: orchestrated campaign to purify the Church

Revisionist: Anti-Catholic pressure from Council which feared for EI safety following Ridolfi Plot

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Turner

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1584

Suggested changes to Prayer Book and a Calvinist style church government

Parliament itself refused to hear Turner’s bill

Jailed

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Cope’s Bill and Book

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1586: assassination of William of Orange, Babington Plot7

Campaign to replace the Anglican prayer book and organisation with Calvinist ones

NEALE: well-organised group hijacked session

GRAVES: led by mere handful of men who “lacked general parliamentary sympathy or support, and were easily smothered by government action”

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Treason Act

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1571

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Act ‘Against missionary priests, Jesuits and other such disobedient persons’

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1585

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Act Against Seditious Sectaries

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1593

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‘Men of Business’

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Control and influence of commons by Cecil after 1671 (peerage) e.g. Thomas Norton

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Time parliament called for

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39 months / 45 years

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Golden Speech

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1601

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‘for Elizabeth, Parliamentarians were little boys – sometimes unruly, usually a nuisance, and always a waste of an intelligent woman’s time’

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Christopher Haigh

Elizabeth I (5 decks)

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