Stuarts - Essay Content Key facts

Question 1

James = Parliament

Answer 1

• 1604 = Se / 400K GP
• 1614 - Addled
• Favourites = Villers vs Carr (Overton Affair)
• 1621 = Palatinate - 140k - M - M100+
• 1624 = SA 300k / M / C

Question 2

James = Finance

Answer 2

Issues = 400k - i / cf = cl (800k) / 1/2 S
Ex = 36k loans / 2200 b /
S = CS = 1/3 rev lost + BC / BoB - C imp.
O = GC = 200/600 = X

Question 3

James = Foreign Policy

Answer 3

A/F = RP - DD - no Match - war 1623 - P SA/M/M
Imp = 300k - DD / Palatinate
Out = C / PFP / War

Question 4

James = Religion

Answer 4

An = Er. = 39A / Plur. / Pov. / 36BL
P = Ref. / HCC 1604 MP1K + Sur. / Calv / M+N /
Ar = EP - 1617 AN / PC
C = 1580s war - GP - RF - Jes. - oath / FP Spain?

Question 5

Charles 1625-38 = Foreign Policy

Answer 5

P = 140k
D = 120k
1625 - 500k - Biscay / Cadiz
1626 = Rich. - La Rochelle ‘28
Felton - Souza / Madrid

Question 6

Charles 1625-38 = Arminianism

Answer 6

1628 = L = B. of L. – all key p. = A
A = l vs h churches
Parishes = enforced liturgy – Church aut. Aid prerog. DR
1625-9 = p vs A
YHC – ’26 = Pur vs A
Charges of heterodoxy against Laud and Niele

Question 7

Charles 1625-38 = Parliament

Answer 7

1625 = 140k - Mans. / French Marriage
T/ P 1yr lease – no trust = oxford dissolved due to B
1626 = critiqued Crown P – Cadiz / York = unhappy / Coke + wentworth remon.
F Loan – 2 S = (260k)
1629 = 5S + Pet of R (TIBM)
Remonstrance to supp. Pet
Buck dies

Question 8

Charles 1625-38 = PR E

Answer 8

Reduce finances = House costs – 260kyr – 40%
Customs = TYW – avoid = merchant trading keeps solvent Iberian monopoly
Customs = 2/3
D – W – FL (FF)
Mo = 100k / 750k holders (Cath soap)
Ship tax – 190k yr – Hampdens case = 20% decline
SC /CoHC
Used City of London

Question 9

Charles 1625-38 = PR R

Answer 9

• Attacks on Preaching= 1629 – replace PS– Q B auth. – imposed liturgy – surplice / hood / Feoffees
  High / low church etc.

Thorough = ecclesiastical changes – Prynn Burton and Bastwick tried in SC
Gentry Opp. – church wealth restoration

Wentworth Lord Deputy Ireland 1632 – Graces - enemy – Earl of Cork = Successes =
X deficit = p courts / Customs
Scotland = 1625 revoke Crown lands act – impose Prayer Book

Question 10

Collapse of PR = end of PR

Answer 10

1639 = Bishops War - P-Finance - ToB
Short P = Pym - no finance
1640 Canons / 2nd War = Convocation oath / Ripon 850

Question 11

Reasons for CW

Answer 11

Pym / Junto in LP
Strafford / CT / 200-59 - Attainder
Triennial Act
Remedial Measures
Attacks on Laud - Irish Rebellion 1641 - 5-20k
Grand Rem. - 204
5 members
19 props

Question 12

Reasons for CW success

Answer 12

E2 / B3 / HH/ MM4 / Ne4 / N5
SDO / NMA
C+F VS ME
London 80% factories etc.