Personal rule 1629-1640 Flashcards
Finance
Debt of £2 million
Made peace with France - treaty of Susa and treaty of Madrid
Collected customs duties
Increased effort to collect recusancy fines - Alienated Catholics
Fiscal Feudalism - outdated methods of income
Wardship, forced taxes, distraint of Knighthood
Distraint of Knighthood
Those who had land worth more than £40 and attended coronation owed money
Bigger rift between rich and him
Getting around law
Forrest laws
Found land that had been part of royal forest and charge people who had built there
Didn’t raise much and annoyed upper classes
Problems with Fiscal Feudalism
Abuse of feudal rights
Bypassing Parliamentary approval
Economic hardship
Legal and constitutional concerns
Religion
intrinsic problem - Laud
support for Laud - he could control all religious policies
His puritan detractors were small - John Pym etc.
Implemented Arminian ideals
Called Laudianism
Laudianism aims
Impose uniformity of practice in the church
Make churches more fit for worship
Eradicate Puritanism
Increase church’s influence on government - Star chamber
Restore wealth of the clergy
Laudianism in practice
Attempted to enforce Book of Common Prayer
Reforms in church made Puritans very angry
Aggressive measures against Puritans
Promotion of Catholic ideals
Upset everyone
Becomes most problematic when taken to Scotland
Ireland
Wentworth’s role seen as negative
Attempted to implement ‘thorough’ - centralised authority etc.
Heavy handed measures to extract revenue
Native Irish hated English rule
Increased religious tensions due to attempt to strengthen Protestantism
Laid the groundwork for future conflict
Scotland
CATALYST of the Civil War
Attempted to enforce Arminianism over their Presbyterian church
Sparked widespread resistance
Tried to introduce new Prayer book
Created Bishops war
Meant PR had to end
Eventually led to Civil War
