personal issues 1629-40 impacts of gov 1

Question 1

cheif protagonists of 3 res

Answer 1

opponents pled guilty and evenatually fled, sir john elliot refused to ask for pardon so sent to tower of london. c.1 est eprosnal rule didnt call upon palriemtn for 11 years >1640

Question 2

royal court during personal rule
-arts

Answer 2

c.1 continued to patronise arts- commisioned series of paintings by van byk=glorified monarch/depicted c.1 as absolute moanrch. court masques continued displeasing puritains

Question 3

c.1 became more remote from the country
+critics

Answer 3

he abandoned tradition of ‘summer progress’ -court travling aorund country and staying in homes of local gentry/nobles.
critics= c.1 breakign traditional link between court and country a seperation made mroe accute by absence of parliemtn

Question 4

access to c.1 at court was even more restricted
+critics

Answer 4

court was govenrd by strict rules and etiquatte, c.1 withdrew into a inner cirlcle of close friends/family. at court, c.1 was seldom seen in more public spaces

critics=reinforced the idea he was trying to rule as absolute monarch , lack of communications between court+country gave rise to suspicioun court was becoming breeding ground for cath sympathisers

Question 5

c.1 cheif ministers included arminian faction

Answer 5

william laud bishop london first lord of treasury + bishop william juxon- lord treasure from 1635

Question 6

c.1 chief ministers included spanish faction

Answer 6

richard western (lord treasurer until 1635) suspected cath and converted to cath on death bed
c.1 also accpeted permannt papal envoy to his court, even his artistic taste seen as catholic- rubens

Question 7

main instrument of gov during perosnal rule was privy council

Answer 7

grew to around 30 members , met serval times a week average dozen attendance, c.1 attendance erratic buy by end of 1630’s attended once a week and chairing sunday meeting

Question 8

by late 1630 privy council standing commite for

Answer 8

trade, ordance, foreign affairs, foreign plantations, irleland

Question 9

the privy councils issed ‘royal proclamations’ expected to be enforced by local gov affairs

Answer 9

king>p.c>justice of peace.
jps enfore law in the parishes

Question 10

william laud and sir thomas wentworth initiaed a policy ‘thorough’ in this period

Answer 10

made local gov officals and parish ministers more accountable for central gov, cupported by ‘book orders’ 1631. laid down regulations to inc the authroty fo central gov (centralsiaiton) and made local gov affairs more ACCOUNTABLE

Question 11

CENTRALISATION

Answer 11

central gov:privy council(circuit judges) issue royal proclamations
local gov:country sheifs/parish jp’s= cirucit judges explain proclamatins to jps , jps had monthy meeting wit local officials in parishes (hundred churhc wardens and constibles)

Question 12

ACCOUNTBAILITY

Answer 12

central gov:privy council: judges report to p.c
local ogv:county sherifs: report to circuit jduge
parish jps :jps report to county sheift monthly basis

Question 13

c.1 used prerogative courts to enforce gov policy

Answer 13

local officicals who didnt comply with privy council plocy punished by court of star chamber
-parish ministers who didnt comply with religious reforms punished by court of high commissions
-regional councils also enfprced gov policy in regions further than london eg council fo north

Question 14

puritiains est the providence island company in this period

Answer 14

founed 1629, central americna
used slaves grow cottom and tabacco
jphn pym became treasure in 1630+ include john hampden
other settlers moved to massachutes bag, overall 16k purtiians fled to american through fear of prosecution

Question 15

c.1 advised to reduce debt by lord cottingten/lord western

Answer 15

by 1629 crown debt was 2m, wanted to avoic palriemnt being called so it was impososble to secure subised form palriemnt.
reducing debt emant= reducing spending, inc crwon income