Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Summary of Extravagance,
Corruption and Scandal
- Extravagence
- James spent money he didn't have
- £185,000 on jewels
- £36,000 on clothes in one year
- Spent double what Elizabeth did
- £1,000,000 debt by the time he died
- Rise of £507,000 in debt in 5 years
- Held masques
- Spent a lot to show his family had
the right to live in magnificance
- Prince Henry £25,000 a year on his expenditure
- Royal wardrobe
(£36,000 in 1610)
- Corruption
- Tried to get money from
other sources; impositions
- Carr pardoned to
prevent spilling beans
- Attacking a royal minister
- James under pressure
from court factions, had to
let Bacon fall. Charged with
20 counts of corruption
- Sales of Baronet titles
- Buckingham
- Scandal
- James paid Scots so the parliament
would not give him money
- Patronage on lovers
- Addled Parliament