Petition of Right

Question 1

Petition of Right:

Date

Answer 1

1628

Question 2

Petition of Right:

Summary

Answer 2

Provisions:

• Demanded that the king to reverse the decision made in the Five Knights case.
• In the future, citizens would not be asked to pay forced loans.
• Citizens will not be imprisoned without trial.
• Citizens will not be subjected to martial law.
• Citizens will not be forced to provide free lodgings for soldiers

Question 3

Petition of Right:

Causation

Answer 3

Five Knights Case.

Foreign policy failures.

• The planned war led to conscription of troops + forced billeting of troops in people’s houses, when a serious outbreak of the plague had already disrupted the economy.

Attacks on Buckingham through a more subtle strategy. BUT failed.

Question 4

Petition of Right:

Consequence

Answer 4

Charles published a revised version of the Petition and then ended 1628 session of Parl. due to complaints about B and the promotion of Arminians in Church:

• Showed that he failed to recognise that he had in fact sustained a defeat at the hands of Parliament.
• Asserted his right to continue collecting Tonnage and Poundage without a parliamentary grant
  
  • Justified by emergency powers in the national interest. Meant that he imprisoned any merchants who refused to pay T + P.
  • E.g. Richard Chambers granted bail by common law courts BUT Charles imprisoned him by the Prerogative Court of the Star Chamber on direct royal authority.

Parliament reassembled in 1629 + appalled:

• Look into the breaches of the P of R
• The treatment of merchants who had refused to pay T + P (Chambers)
• Charles ordered parliament to adjourn.
  
  • LED TO FORCED PASSING OF THREE RESOLUTIONS.

Question 5

Petition of Right:

Significance

Answer 5

The Petition of Right had briefly offered the opportunity for reconciliation between Charles and parliament, but the chance of this diminished rapidly as a result of CHARLES ACTIONS.