Restoration Flashcards
What has De Krey argued about the 1679-81 crisis?
It was a multifaceted Restoration crisis, rather than an exclusion crisis
What does De Krey see the competition between Whigs and Tories as marking a turning point in?
The development of more modern structures of political debate and discussion
What does De Krey argue marked a crisis in the English restoration? What was it prompted by?
1667-73
Parliamentary consideration of an act to replace the expiring Conventicle Act of 1664
As what can the Restoration be seen as a transitional era between?
Long Reformation and the long 18th century
How was the triumphal royalism of 1660-1 seen in the 1970s?
As representing a deep seated national urge to re-establish monarchy
Who argued that politics were secularised after 1660?
Whigs and Marxists
Who argued that “new situations and new sets of problems for the restored monarch and his ministers” after 1660?
Jones
Who have argued that 1660 did not mark a fundamental watershed?
Harris and Goldie
What is an example to support the argument that there was a significant continuity in personnel?
Earl of Shaftesbury
What does Rose argue about Restoration political thinking?
That it often took place in a religious framework
Which two historians have shown that the collapse of the Protectorate after Richard Cromwell’s succession was not inevitable?
Woolrych and Hutton
What did anti-republic political discourse from 1659 focus on?
Need for a legitimate parliament AND need for a legitimate monarch
What did most people want?
A new and comprehensive settlement of hte country’s political and religious institutions
What was the desire for a free parliament based on, if not solely the restoration of Charles?
Reaction against the management, purging and massaging of Parliament since 1648
What does De Krey argue the political reaction of 59-60 based on?
“Preserving both parliament government and Protestant tradition”
What was most significantly restored in 1660
Unsteady partnership between crown and parliament
What was Restoration England a reaction against?
Sectarianism, republicanism, army, fiscal excesses, arbitrary government of partial parliaments
What was the impact of the habit of resolving disputes and resolving goals through political and legal channels?
Created an internalised and ingrained respect for the law
What was there a pervasive concern for?
Consensus and conciliation
What was the role of the monarch according to the ancient constitution?
To defend realm from attack and through law courts, maintain order, protect property, resolve disputes
Why were prerogatives necessary according to the ancient constitution?
For the safety of the people and proper conduct of government
On what was there an emphasis as part of the ancient constitution?
Mutuality, participation, cooperation, consensus
What was implied by images of the king as a father figure?
That he was an innate and superior authority, but also that he had a duty to rule in his subjects’ interests
What did the concept of an ancient constitution allow for?
Ordered constitutional evolution
What came to be seen as contracts?
King’s coronation oath and subjects’ oaths of allegiance
What did people argue about the ancient constitution after 1646?
That it perpetuated tyranny and injustice
What was the restoration of monarchy seen as an essential condition for?
The restoration of gentry rule and the ancient constitution
Why was there every reason to give Charles II the benefit of the doubt?
Quarrel always with Charles rather than monarchy
Into what was Charles I transformed?
A martyr for monarchy and church
What did Whigs avoid talking about and speculating during the Exclusion Crisis?
Origins of government; preferred to urge king to heed fates of Edward II, Richard II and III
What did royalists argue was a lesser evil than the confusion unleashed by active resistance?
Occasional misuse of royal power
What did most Royalists and Tories believe in?
Common law - expected king to respect it
What was one key way in which royalists differed from Whigs (think threats)?
In seeing the main threat to the constitution and law as coming from revolution from below rather than crown
Why was the instinct to restore the ancient constitution?
Tried and tested means of providing effective, ordered government while securing liberties of the people
When was the Cavalier parliament?
May 1661
What was the first act passed by the Cavalier parliament?
Declared that the houses could not legislate without the king (all legislation since 1641 void)
What 1640s bone of contention was also resolved in an act from 1661?
Sole command of armed forces and militia reserved for king
What did the 1662 Licensing Act give?
Statutory basis to pre-publication press censorship
Why was the restoration policy inherently unstable constitutionally?
Did not provide crown with meals to rule without parliament, nor did it provide parliament with the means to maintain its role in government against a determined crown
Who argues that dissatisfaction with Charles’ diplomatic and domestic policies led to a breakdown as early as 1666-7?
Seaward
Who argues that Westminster politics tended to polarise along religious lines in the 60s and 70s?
Henning
How does Keeble view the 1660s?
As quickly slipping into “disappointment, disillusionment and resentment”
Who argues that the restoration chiefly restored “England’s troubles”?
Scott
Was the impact of the demystification of monarchy?
Crown had to maintain public support through the image of moderation as well as sacral imagery of divine right
With what kind of language did the royalists have to compete with?
Law, an ancient constitution, parliament, popular liberties, neighbourliness, urban citizenship
Who has argued that the restored crown’s capacity to manage the localities was also limited?
Coleby, Gauci, Halliday, Miller
Who have argued that the multilayered character of stuart government inhibited decisive interventions by the monarchy?
Braddick and Goldie
What % of the adult male population might be in some office at any given time?
As much as 5%
In what was Political power shared?
network of agencies - stakeholders from rich to poor
When did Charles begin to flex his prerogative?
when he was secure on his throne
What has de Krey argued resulted from the political crisis of 1679-81?
the beginnings of modern English politics rather than a repetition of the crisis of 40-2.
What period were the 70s traditionally compared to? What kind of comparisons were made?
1620s
- fear of European Protestantism’s extinction (30 YW vs. Louis XIV)
- Petitions against marriage of heir to foreign catholic
What did Holles (ex-speaker) argue was a violation in 1676 when Charles failed to fall parliament?
Petition of Right and Magna Carta
What was demanded in 74?
Removal of “evil counsellors”
Who led country opposition by 1675?
Shaftesbury and Buckingham
When did MPs try and push Charles into war with France?
1678
What did the Scots do in 1673 and with whose help?
Challenged Lauderdale’s management of the kingdom with help of English MPs
Why did Ireland remain quiet in this period?
Indulged Catholics and dissenters and economy rebounded from civil war disruptions
What challenged patriarchal and divine right theory in the 79/81 crisis?
Reassertion of contractual political theory and of natural and historic rights
What does Goldie see ideology as born in?
“As much in anticlericalism as in constitutionalism”
Whose techniques of parliamentary management did they criticise and when?
Danby, 74-8
What did York refuse to comply to?
1673 Test Act
Who argues the the confrontation between Charles and Whig opposition in 79/81 was about popery and arbitrary government?
Scott and Knights
what undermined the trust on which the Restoration settlement had rested o?
Charles’ forgoing his subjects trust and conversion of York
What differences has de Krey identified between the 40/2 crisis and 79/81?
Opinion not initially almost universally hostile to court as under Charles - more of an even division
What did parties still lack in this period?
Organisation and direction
In what way did parties begin to resemble their modern selves?
More organised, represented a stronger integration of parliamentary and local affairs and more ideologically hostile to each other than former rival factions/interests
What dramatic change had occurred in parliamentary politics by 1681?
By 1681, some electors saw their MPs as accountable to them for their parliamentary behaviour.
How did debates take place in a broadening public context?
Print used to direct debate and cultivate support
Who has argued that the threat was in the presence and a religious threat?
Scott
What was the key issue in Scotland and Ireland in 79/81?
Political choice between persecution and accommodation
Who was assassinated in Scotland in 1679?
Scotland’s Episcopal Primate
What was put down by Monmouth?
Covenanter insurrection occupying Glasgow
What did James do in a 1681 session of the Scottish estates?
New obligatory oath of uncompromising fealty to the crown and current governance of the Scottish church
Why did resistance fall apart?
Charles regained control over timing of sessions and never lost control over the Lords
What highlighted the complications inherent in Stuart rule over multiple kingdoms?
That the commons and Scottish estates moved in opposite directions over succession and church settlement
What fraction of the peerage by 1640 were Catholics?
1/10
How has Lake seen the protestant view of popery?
as based on a series of polar opposites, through which the evils of popery highlighted the virtues of Protestantism.
What was Protestantism identified with in the English mind? What was the implication of this?
ancient constitution - thus perceived threat of absolute monarchy linked to popery