Year 12 Knowledge Test 1 Flashcards
In what year did Buckingham travel to Spain?
1623
Give one feature of puritanism
Purify church, plain churches and emphasis on prayer and bible study
Give one feature of Anglicanism
Moderate protestantism, established by religious settlement, a comprimise church
Give one feature of arminianism
beautification of churches, a more ‘catholic’ form of protestantism
Name a prominent Arminian from the 1620s
William Laud
what was the york house conference
a religious debate focussed on arminianism
Name charles’ brother in law, who was exiled from his lands in 1620
Frederick of the Palatinate
Give one reason why the cadiz expedition was a disaster
Poor/old ships, soldiers got drunk, not enough food and water on board and untrained troops
GIve one reason why Charles and Henrietta Maria’s marriage did not get off to a good start
she was cold and sulky/ unhappy and homesick, didn’t speak much english, spent all her time with her french ladies in waiting
give one reason why the marriage improved at the end of the 1620s
death of buckingham, ladies-in-waiting sent home
In which year did charles declare war on france
1627
what did charles 1 parliament only allow him to collect for a year
tonnage and poundage
who declared in parliament, following the failure at cadiz, ‘our ships are sunk, our men perished, not by the enemy…but by those we trust’?
Edward Coke
Give one reason why war was starting to become a source of resentment to the people of england by 1628
Billeting of troops, martial law, financial burden (ship money/forced loan), impressment (conscription)
What social classs had to pay the forced loan?
All of them
Give one reason why the forced loan created resentment
Seen as an illegal tax not approved by parliament
Name 2 things demanded by the petition of right
No more forced loans; no imprisonment without trial; no more billeting; an end to martial law
How many subsidies/ how much money did Parliament offer to grant Charles if he signed the Petition of RIght?
£280,000 or five subsidies
Who assassinated Buckingham on 23rd August 1628?
John Felton
Give one way in which the assassination of Buckingham could have solved a problem of Charles’
Opened up his court, other routes of patronage, better relationship with Parliament with removal of Buckingham
Give the title of the king’s messenger, who was sent to close down Parliament in 1629
Black rod
Who read out the three resolutions
Denzil Holles
What two concerns did Parliament express in the three resolutions of 1629
Arminianism and Tonnage & Poundage
