Restoration

Question 1

What were the 3 main reasons for restoration

Answer 1

1. Army and parliament could not agree
2. PN were worried about radicals
3. Charles’ declaration of breeda seemed like the only settlement

Question 2

What were the two main points in the declaration of Breda

Answer 2

1. To rule as a traditional monarch through parliament
2. Degree of religious freedom for Protestant dissenters
3. General pardon

Question 3

What 3 restrictions were held from 1640

Answer 3

1. Star chamber and high commission not restored
2. Ship money illegal
3. Feudal rights such as warship not restored

Question 4

Militia acts (1661/2)

Answer 4

Monarch not parliament controlled the army

Question 5

Remodelled triennial act

Answer 5

1664.

No compulsion to call parliament every 3 years

Question 6

What led to the army disbanding

Answer 6

1. Army paid in arrears

2. Indemnity act

Question 7

Finical settlement ?

Answer 7

1. 1.2 mill a year
2. Excise and hearth tax
3. Insufficient especially with Dutch war

Question 8

What was the consequence of Charles limited income

Answer 8

Had to call parliament every year between 1660-1681

Question 9

What was the purpose of the Clarendon code?

Answer 9

1. Cavalier parliament

2. To reestablish Anglican Church but mainly to crush dissenters (non-conformists)

Question 10

What caused the conventicle act

Answer 10

1663 Northen rising

Question 11

What 5 acts were in the Clarendon code

Answer 11

1. Corporation act
2. Act of uniformity
3. Quaker act
4. Conventicle act
5. Five mile act