Charles and Parliament
- Created by: Emily Barber
- Created on: 21-05-13 18:55
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- Conflict between Charles and Parliament 1625-29
- Charles
- refused to bargain when demanding money from Parlt
- Refused to remove Buckingham
- Saw Parliament as "a subservient instrument for funding his war policies"
- Forced Loan
- Opening speech 1628 heightened Parlt fear of extinction
- Ambiguous response and reprinting answer to Petition of Right soured relations
- Encouraged and protected Arminions
- Attempted to be conciliatory at 1629 Parlt
- Buckingham
- Plunged England into two needless wars which were both fundamentally avoidable
- 1625 Parlt soured by attacks on Buckingham
- 1625 Cadiz expedition was a disaster
- Supporters such as Eliot turned against him and attempted to have him impeached
- Parlt refused to vote money while Buckingham had power
- 1627 Rhe expedition disaster
- incompetent war leader
- 1625 Cadiz expedition was a disaster
- Supporters such as Eliot turned against him and attempted to have him impeached
- 1625 Cadiz expedition was a disaster
- incompetent war leader
- Died in 1628 - 1629 Parlt still stormy
- Parliament
- Did not vote tonnage and poundage as customary
- Mps had encouraged war then were not prepared to pay for it - Russell
- Charles was conciliatory 1629 but Eliot would not grant tonnage and poundage
- Eliot Holles and Valentine hold down speaker 1629 - even contemporaries admit they went too far
- MPs prepared to vote £300,000 but withheld it because Chales uncooperative
- Arminians
- Accused of encouraging Charles to behave as an absolute monarch
- Supported the forced loan
- Arminians had been promoted under James
- 1628 Parlt impeached Manwaring for his sermon supporting the forced loan
- War
- Conflict about conduct of the War
- Charles had to resort to the forced loan in order to expense the expeditions to Cadiz and La Rochelle and to pay subsidies to King of Denmark
- The Petition of Right 1628 attacked methods used to fight the war
- By 1629 war had stopped but Parlt still stormy
- Charles
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