1625 - Spanish Match; Charles and
Buckingham set out to find and marry the
Spanish princess. It is a fruitless mission
that results in an aggressive attitude
toward Spain
1625 - Expedition to Cadiz. Disasterous campaign.
1627 - La Rochelle -
campaign to ally French king
against Hugenots (French
Protestants). Raises
suspicions
1639 - First Bishop's War; Charles had
20,000 poorly trained Englishmen; Leslie
had 20,000 Scottish cavalry. No blood was
shed.
1639 - Treaty of Berwick; signed by
Charles and the Scottish for peace.
Charles needed this time to build an
army.
1640 - Second Bishop's War
1640 - The Battle of Newburn; Leslie and
the Scottish capture and occupy Newcastle
from Conway.
October 1640 - The Treaty of Ripon;
Scots allowed to their
Presbytarianism as opposed to
Episcopy.. It stipulated that
Northumberland and County
Durham were to be ceded to the
Scots as an interim measure, that
Newcastle was to be left in the
hands of the Scots, and that Charles
was to pay them £850 a day to
maintain their armies there
1637 - Solemn League and
Covenant; in retaliation to the
enforced prayer book, the Scottish
sign a Covenant (becoming the
Covenanters) to defend the Scottish
Kirk.
RELIGION
1633 - William Laud made Archbishop of London
Emergence of Laudinism. New version of Arminianism.
1637 - Prayer Book
enforced in Scotland by
Charles. Mostly
Presybytarian area
FINANCE
1630 - Illegal collection of tonnage
and poundage; sales of monopolies
renewed through loophole.
1630 - Commission of
Defective Titles; King can
freely raise rent of
tenants.
Commission for Knighthoods -
men worth £40 had to buy a
knighthood, raised £165,000
1635 - Ship money extended to all countries
1636 - John Hampden refused to pay
John Hampden - challenged the authority of
Charles I, with both the Ship Money of 1636, and
the Five Knights Case preluding the First Civil
War
PARLIAMENTS
13 April 1640 - Short
Parliament; Charles recalled
Parliament after his 11 years of
Personal Rule on the advice of
Wentworth, primarily to gain
finance for the Bishop's Wars.
Parliament was more
interested in addressing royal
abuses. Charles closed the
Parliament.
Nov 1640 - Long Parliament
1628 - Petition of Right; men to only be
imprisoned with reason (went against
the Five Knights Case) and repeal on
Forced Loan.
1629 - The Three Resolutions; The protestation denounced Arminianism and encouraged
merchants to refuse to pay tonnage and poundage. Those who paid were branded enemies to the
Kingdom and betrayers of the liberties of England
Jan. 1642 - FIVE KNIGHTS CASE; The King believed that Puritans, (or Dissenters), encouraged by five
vociferous Members of the House of Commons, known thereafter as the Five Members –
John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Arthur Haselrig and William Strode – together with
the peer Edward Montagu, Viscount Mandeville (the future Earl of Manchester), had
encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops' Wars, and that they were
intent on turning the London mob against him.
FAVOURITES
George Villers -Duke of Buckingham;
divided Parliament and Crown
Thomas Wentworth - Earl of Strafford;
pivotal part in the Irish campaign, and an
advisor to the king.