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34 Cards in this Set
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1603 |
James I of England crowned |
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Millenary Petition (1603) |
petition presented to James about religion - claimed to have 1000 signatures |
religion |
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Hampton Court Conference (1604) |
- followed Millenary Petition - religious conference - radical puritans excluded - only permanent achievement was King James Bible |
religion |
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Bancroft's Canons (1604) |
- church laws that upheld orthodox doctorines and liturgies of the Church - also upheld practices that were condemned by the Millenary Petition - Dec - initiated drive to conform to canons - persecution of Puritans |
religion |
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Treaty of London (1604) |
- treaty that ends war with Spain |
foreign affairs |
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Buckinghamshire election (1604) |
- Court of Chancery annulled Francis Goodwin as MP for Buckinghamshire - claimed he was an outlaw - had two outstanding summonses for debt - John Fortescue (privy councillor) returned in his place - was seen as royal interference - demonstrates PvsP |
prerogative vs privilege |
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Shirley's case (1604) |
- Thomas Shirley (MP) arrested for debt - upset MPs that wanted to establish parliamentary privilege of freedom from arrest while sitting - Parliament sent governor of Fleet debtors' prison to Tower of London until Shirley was released |
prerogative vs privilege |
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Form of Apology and Satisfaction (1604) |
- MPs drew this up - protests against James' handling of all political issues - Commons was more united with the king on this |
prerogative vs privilege |
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Gunpowder Plot (1605) |
- Catholic plot that was made to assassinate James and blow up the Houses of Parliament - Guy Fawkes was most famous from this - the leader was Robert Catesby - triggered James' Oath of Allegiance in 1606 as a response - demonstartes anti-Catholicism |
religion |
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Oath of Allegiance (1606) |
- introduced as a response to Gunpowder plot (1605) - forced Catholic recusants to declare their allegiance to the king and not the Pope |
religion |
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Parliament grants 3 subsidies (1606) |
- James' extravagance caused financial problems - granted 3 subsidies to help with his debts - right away gave £44,000 to three of his Scottish friends - gave away money to his favourites |
finance |
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Union of England and Scotland (1606) |
- desire for unification between England and Scotland - intense opposition to 'Great Britian' - concern that he could abolish English law and rewrite them to give him more authority - MPs opposed it on religious, legal, economic and legal grounds |
foreign affairs |
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Book of Bounty (1608) |
- Cecil introduced this - aimed to make more money by revising leading policy - nature of Crown's bureaucracy and James giving away money hampered his efforts - had to resort to short-term fixes |
finance |
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Book of Rates (1608) |
- July 1608 - revised custom duties - based on current prices - levied impositions on 1400 items |
finance |
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Crown debt (1610) |
£280,000 |
finance |
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Annual expenditure (1610) |
£511,000 |
finance |
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Great Contract (1610) |
- Cecil started negotiating with Parliament a major reform - James had to abandon his right to claim a number of feudal taxes (wardship, purveyance) for an annual grant (£200,000) by Parliament |
finance |
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James' First Parliament |
- 1604-1611 - raised consititutional questions - esp. relationship between Crown prerogatives and parliamentary privilege |
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James' Second Parliament |
- Addled Parliament - 1614 |
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Crown Debt (1614) |
£680,000 |
finance |
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Cockayne Scheme (1614) |
- plan to reorganise cloth trade and a commission to prevent further building in London - monopoly on production and sale of finished cloth granted to Cockayne - Dutch refused to buy finished cloth from England - resulted in slump in English cloth trade |
finance |
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Titles (1614) |
- short-term fixes for finance - selling off titles - doing so debased the value of the titles - 200 baronets sold for £90,885 |
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Crown debt (1617) |
£726,000 |
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Walter Raleigh execution (1618) |
- accused of inciting war between Spain and England - arrested for treason |
foreign policy |
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Buckingham made Lord High Admiral (1619) |
- shows how James would give high positions of power to his favourites - displayed how he was not able to make politically correct decisions - wasn't able to remain pragmatic |
prerogative vs privilege |
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Recusancy fines (1620) |
- issued in 1603 - £5,300 raised |
finance |
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James' Third Parliament |
- 1621 - growing tension over finance - James' wanted to settle tension by marrying Charles to the Spanish infanta |
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Parliament grants 2 subsidies (1621) |
- £140,000 - reluctant to grant more due to econ depression |
finance |
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Monopolies (1621) |
- more than 100 monopolies |
finance |
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Parliament issue with foreign policy (1621) |
- F.P was part of monarch's prerogative - Parliament had no right to discuss it - James' implied that MPs could discuss it as a way to frighten the Spanish (Spanish match) |
Foreign policy / prerogative vs privilege |
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The Madrid Trip (1623) |
- Charles and Buckingham travelled to Spain for the Spanish Match - wanted to marry off Charles to the Spanish Infanta - recieved poor treatment due to anti-Protestanism - they returned to England favouring war against Spain - 1624 - Charles married French princess, Henrietta Maria |
foreign policy |
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James' Fourth Parliament |
- 1624 - James ill - Charles and Buckingham involved in F.P - when he died in 1625, he maintained a working relationship with Parliament |
parliaments |
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Subsidy Act (1624) |
- granted a subsidy of £300,000 to the Crown for warfare - agreed that they can only use for specific part of F.P and supervised by parliamentary official |
finance |
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Statute of Monopolies (1624) |
- act limited the Crown's right to grant monopolies to individuals |
finance |
