Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Key Charles Dates (1625-26)
- 1625
- Charles becomes King
- Believer in Divine Right of Kings
- Saw critcism as treacherous
and treasoneous
- Poor communicator
- Henrietta Maria had increased
influence over him
- Favoured Armenians
- Absolutist
- Charles' First Parliament
- Called to raise money for
anti-Spanish expeditions
- Tonnage and Poundage
- Tax for "protection of the seas" from
piractes but wasnt happening
- Buckingham responsible so was
therefore a good way to attack him
- Usually given to the King in his first
parliament for the whole reign but Coke and
Phelips persuaded to grant it for one year
- Buckingham Removes
his Enemies
- Purged the court of anyone
who didn't support him
- Bristol and the Earl of Arundel
- Rest of the country began to
resent the court as they felt it was
under Buckinghams sway
- Subsidies for War
- For a continental war
- Parliament was not happy as there was
no decleration for war, failed Mansfield
expedition and marriage to a catholic
- Only gave £140,000 and
more given if improvement.
Charles asked for more. They
attacked Buckingham and
they were dissolved
- Cadiz Expedition
- Financed using the Queen's dowry and borrowng money from an international financier
- Untrained and irresponsible troops (getting
drunk), break down of discipline, retreated
back to England and many starved
- A minister thought the defeat was God
punishing England; "not governed by
justice but by bribery and extortion"
- 1626
- Attack on Buckingham
- By Parliament
- "Our honor is ruined, our ships are
sunk, our men are perished, not by
the enemy...but by those we trust" -
Sir John Eliot
- Arundel released but Bristol not (as
had dirt on Charles). Charged with
treason and parliament charged buck
in response
- Charles dismissed parliament with no subsidies
- Break with France
- Charles wanted to appease
parliament and threw out Henrietta
Marias servants
- Didnt implement promised
leniancies towards Roman Catholics
- French refused to give military aid, Buck turned
on French to help the Huduenots. England now at
war with two most powerful countries in Europe
- Laud's Sermon
- "A royal command must be God's glory, and obedience to it a subjects honor"
- Link between Arminianism and divine
right of kings becoming more evident
- Charles made Montagu a chaplain
- York House Conference
- Reconcile Puritans and Arminians
- Conference held to heal religious differences and diffuse tensions
- Only outcome was that Arminans had
support of Buckingham and therefore
Charles
- "Benevolence"
- Attempt to raise money
- Request to taxpayers who would have paid a
subsidy had it been voted, to give him money
without pariliament voting it
- No-one wanted to pay
- Proclamation attacking Puritans
- Day of dissolving parliament, Charles issued a proclamation
- Seemed to support
Ariminans and attack the
Puritan mainstream of the
Church
- Second Parliament
- Needed money.Coke and Phelips
made sheriffs to prevent them
standing and prevent disturbances