Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Patents and Monopolies
- Long-standing grievances of the Commons
- Had been declared illegal by judges in 1603
- But James continued to use them
- Bacon lost his titles and was fined £40,000
- By 1621, the Court and James' favourites were
heavily implicated in the sleaze surrounding
monopolies. Commons demanded an inquiry
- Led to revival of impeachment
- Offered a way of attacking a royal minister who
had become corrupt and unpopular
- Lord Chancellor Bacon became the "fall guy"
rather than Buckingham. Chief referees of patents
- James under pressure from court factions had to let
Bacon fall. Charged with over 20 counts of corruption