September Flashcards
1600 london population =
1640 =
London was …
of foreign trade , of customs duty
1600 london population = 185000
1640 = 355000
London was biggest port, 4/5 of foreign trade , ¾ of customs duty
Key industries :
farmers ,
cloth industry (strongly puritan) big cloth towns = bolton,leeds,bradford,Leicester
cole/tin/lead mining
Not massively urbanised
most urbanised=
1600 london population =
1640 =
80% + living in villages
London(185000) then Norwich ( 15000) then Bristol (12000) then York (11000)
16C = population increase =
price inflation,lower wage levels
poor people faced poverty/hardship
Yeomanry class –
rich enough to ride horses(serve), puritan outlook, can read/write
gap betw rich and poor =
crime,vagrancy and unemployment , resolved by poor laws james 1
harvest failures =
last English famine
starvation and great disorder
last English famine – 1622-24 1630-31
last biritsh famine – irish potato famine
social hierarchy =
UC followed charles 1 despite him being questionable =
stability and reassurance , gods plan
- no police/professional army
- upper class aware relying on peasnats ( could turn/revolt = tension)
withhold social hierarchy, show example to LC
Religion =
Religion = social control
religion = revolutionary (seen w puritans)
Karl Marx –
german jew who fled to Britain
‘ religion is the opium of the people”
James 1
king at 1 years old, protestant, father murdered, mother fled to England = no strong monarch. Nobody upkeeping hierachy
reagents ruled Scotland on his behalf- murdered
teacher = Buchanan,stern,punishes = scholarly
introduces divine right of kings
‘ the true law of free monarchies ‘ 1598
‘ kings are called gods’ ‘ appointed by god and answerable only to god”
Scottish presbyterian kirk
(puritanism) – elected councils
Scottish gentry/nobility in charge
royalty = weak
Elizabeth dies
…
within 8 hours James crowned king of England
inheriter of imperial crown of England and Scotland
Rex Pacificus =
peacemaker king
aim to reconcile Catholic and protestant
terminate ancient feud of eng and Scotland – fuse to united realm
England =
most powerful protestant country , richest
then Sweden, Scotland, Denmark, Norway
Somerset House Conference –
peace treaty with spain (treaty of London)
James ended 20 year war with catholic Spain
puritans annoyed..
catholics annoyed…
puritans – champions of protestant – annoyed England at peace with catholics-no longer champions
extreme Catholics annoyed spain hadn’t removed toleration for catholic
catholics annoyed – want religious toleration
recusancy fines –
45 years – angst
1605 – gunpowder plot - revenge on James 1
35 barrels of gunpowder
4 nov searched
james = cool,calm doesn’t launch a catholic attack
however fuels ongoing paranoia of a catholic grand plot
catholics numbers dwindled =
wealthy, lords of gentry. Only richest can pay fines + their staff /slaves
= impression more than there is – big presence
Hampton Court Conference –
on religious settlement
puritans demand english church removepopish elements (more like kirk in Scotland)
in pulpit, (james 1 ) monarch above preacher – shwos poer of royal supremacy
james determined to keep supremacy in eng and extend to scotland
puriatns pushing Elizabeth to reform the church of England – make pure
thought James would
Eng and Scotland = middleway kept and extended to scot – proclaimed to keep elizabethain religious settlement as it was at conference
- Ceremonies, vestments,bishops enforced (puritans thought popish)
Puritans demand new bible
james did not like old one anyway – showed dislike for kings, new edition= The King James Version
takes years to make, distracts puritans
created by shakespear – unites, beautiful lang, influences theatre,poetry
-not what puirtans hoped for
Union of scotland and england =
new country ‘britain’
natural thing – what god wanted
English parliament refused – xenophobia ( anti-scottish)
rich country, Scotland poor
would be a clean slate- no laws, no customs- easy for dictatorship
hard fought laws/freedom eg – magna carta common law 1215, parliament 1265
would take a long time to build reverence
Eng common law based on precedents- harder for dictatorship
parliament also didn’t want – would become provincial assembly
absolutism going on in frnace/spain - worry same for England
new plan B :
symbolic union , calls himself king of GB
royal coat of arms, new flag – the Jack
revenge – james fills court with scots
extravagant and generous so gives lots of gifts / money = money tension
Elizabeth lrft £3000 debt
has to go parliament for money – relationship with parl = disaster
james abandons gov, loses interest
pursues hi slove of hunting/horseracing
despite this …
- mixture of tact,duplicity and masterful inaction manages to hold the middleground = smooth succession
Charles unlike his father –
Charles unlike his father – painfully shy, not flexible (beleifs), hardworking
James – gregarious, party animal
personal monarchy
= difficulty for James 1 to rule multiple kingdoms =
– tensions
complex arrangement partly unified kingdoms, each with distinctive culture,gov institutions and religious structure
Scotland and England = different legal systems-
Scotland = parliament in edinburgh, church assembly and Scottish privy council
England = king with help of privy council
England ; 1625
few english nobles had any military experience ,
lack of children born to tudor monarchs=no princes of blood to rival
fewer english nobles
gentry and nobility = single economic class
James undermined Scottish nobility, manipulated to his advantage –
redressed power balance, subdued the nobility
Presbyterian church –
powerful independent force under protection of nobles
james realised strength- didn’t alienate, managed in person at general assmeby so his interests chosen
tensions England and Scotland
( english conquer attempts in 13/14th century)
marriage – daughter MARGARET and James VI in 1502 – hoped to unite BUT henry v111 harsh policies = hostility
James accession =
but..
end to national hostility ( still cultural differneces and bitter legacy)
English feared invasion of scots – wanting wealth / opportunity
Scots feared loss of independence/ resented English arrogance
James rule as absentee monarch –
ruled well, only revisited native country once after 1603 but kept in touch with opinion north- employed agents ( earl of Dunbar ) who shuttled to and from the two kingdoms
Ireland = most problematic =
not independent kingdom like Scotland – like a colony
gov subordinate to English one , had to conform to English demands
hard to control – separated by irish sea, poor country , costlier to rule than tax income – couldn’t support army or bureaucracy
Irish Brehon law – not compatible with English law (individual ownership)
protestant reformation divided Europe –
henry v111 rejected popes authority seized control of church in 1534, couldn’t compel Irish
officially a protestant church of Ireland but roman catholic
irish groups
- mere (native )= catholic
- old english – descendants if pre reformation – catholic , threatebed by new english
_ new english – protestants arrived since reformation in 1540s – controlled gov in Dublin
irish people
- majority native Irishmen and english settlers = catholic
= ireland as convenient base for invasion, necessary to assert control there - english influence mainly in Pale increased elsewhere in 16C
- irish chieftains = english titles of nobility
english rule of ireland developed under Elizabeth 1
army maintained english exchequer that ireland drained
extended military control
major rebellion = Earls and last chieftain of ulster fled = eng;and in control of whole island
Plantation –
dispossess irish peasants of their land, replace with english emigrants = easier to control
james 1 = increased = sent Scottish borderes to ulster BUT introduced Presbyterianism into ireland
but new farm owners nedded labourrers – had to use native irsh = outnumbered them