Personal Rule 1629-1640 Flashcards
Dissolution of Parliament to start personal rule…
March 1629
The Treaty of Susa was in…
April 1629
Ended war with France: Reduced expenditure
The Treaty of Madrid was in…
November 1630
Ended war with Spain: reduced expenditure
Wentworth was appointed as Lord Deputy of Ireland in…
January 1632
Charles was crowned in Scotland in…
June 1633
Laud was made Archbishop of Canterbury in…
August 1633
Ship money was levied on the whole country in…
June 1635
The punishment of Bastwick, Burton and Prynne occurred in…
June 1637
Riots occurred in Edinburgh over the introduction of the New Prayer Book in…
July 1637
The trial of John Hampden over ship money occurred in…
November 1637
National Covenant was drawn up in Scotland in…
February 1638
First Bishops’ War started in…
June 1639
Wentworth returned from Ireland in…
September 1639
Meeting of the Short Parliament
April 1640
Charles’s sources of revenue (9)
Monopolies - £30,000 per year
Distraint of knighthood, - £170,000 by 1635
Ship money - £200,000 per year 1635-38
Increased recusancy collection - £26,866 per year
Court of Wards, Customs farmers, plantations, forest fines, nuisances,– fiscal feudalism.
Alienated almost everyone. However, there was only protest in 1637, suggesting that the alienation was not all that serious.
Charles’s religious policy
Arminian reforms: railing off the altar, destroying family pews to move the altar so it was in the east side of the church, New Prayer Book (1637)
Wentworth and Thorough
Increased settlement of Protestants in N. Ireland at the expense of the Native Irish and Old English. Fines. New Book of Rates and increased customs duties doubles revenue. Irish Parliament granted 10 subsidies in two sessions. Surplus funds were used to make an army (mainly Catholic) which didn’t help the fear of Wentworth (Strafford) in England.
Income from monopolies during personal rule
£30,000 per year
Income from distraint of knighthood during personal rule
£170,000 by 1635
Income from ship money during personal rule
£200,000 per year 1635-38
Income from increased recusancy collection during personal rule
£26,866 per year
