james financial problems of his own making?
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- Created on: 31-05-22 11:28
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1603- 25 How far were James I’s financial
problems of his own making?
- inherited problems
- debt £420 000
- crown lands
- instead- purveyance, wardships, monopolies
- liz-sold for war with spain
- big source of revenue gone
- bad harvests 1590s
- rising crop prices
- inflation- affecting value of money and goods
- unreformed tax system
- ministers
- rob cecil [1608]- book of rates- impositions
- new duties resented
- economy- steady growth, esp in cloth
- lionel cranfield [1618]- investigated royal expenditure
- patronage, bribes from trust given
- rob cecil [1608]- book of rates- impositions
- extravagance
- sir rob carr- £100k- scot
- lifestyle- hunting drinking
- buckingham- 400k/yr
- projects
- cockayne project [1614]
- drastic decrease in cloth, plan to nationalise cloth industry
- cockayne project [1614]
- inherited problems
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