James I and Finance

1608
Restriction on James' spending

1610

The Great Contract
Idea by Robert Cecil, Earl of Sailsbury

Gunpowder plot

November 5th 1605

Levels of crown debt

Purveyance
Wardship
Impositions

1614

Cockayne scheme

1614

Earl of Suffolk as new treasurer

1616

Exports through London 1/3 down from 1614 and customs revenue fell

1618 - 1648

Thirty years war

1618

Book of sports

1625

James I dies

1606
John Bate taken to court for refusing to pay duty on currents
(Case of impositions)

1606-1621

Parliament gave James only one grant (under £100,000)

James formed attachment to Robert Carr (1607-1615)

1603
James accedes to English throne

Extravagance...
1603-1606 = £600,000 spent on army in Ireland.
1603-1612 = £185,000 spent on jewels.
Expenditure on the household doubled by 1610.

1604
Treaty of London

1604
Direct collection of customs was abandoned.