Charles - Personal Rule 1629 - 1640
- Created by: James Baxter
- Created on: 04-05-14 17:38
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- Section 2 : The Personal Rule
- The Court
- Charles head of court - centre of politics
- Shaped by his personality and becomes isolated
- Culture
- Art seen as Catholic - propaganda by Van Dyke portrayed Charles
- Book of orders
- Issued by Privy Council - gives orders to Gentry on how to cope with future failures
- Absolutist
- Sharpe - "Charles is trying to initiate creative reform in this period"
- Issued by Privy Council - gives orders to Gentry on how to cope with future failures
- Charles head of court - centre of politics
- Foreign Policy and Fiscal Feudalism
- FP
- Charles at war with Spain and France
- Signs treaty of Sousa 1629 -FRANCE
- Treaty of Madrid 1630
- Signs treaty of Sousa 1629 -FRANCE
- Charles at war with Spain and France
- Fiscal Feudalism
- 4. Ship MOney
- Prerogative tax -1634
- Not just spend on ships
- Kevin Sharpe- "Greatest Success Story
- 90% colllection rate
- Hutchinson -"Hateful Tax".
- Implementation
- Imposed coastal in 1634 and National in 1635
- Raises £200,000 per annum from 1634-39
- 4. Ship MOney
- FP
- Laudanism
- Form of Arminianism - closest to Catholicism
- Central belief of Puritans and more ceremonial
- Imposition
- Breaking of Jacobethan Balance
- Enforced through High court of Comissions, Visitations and Presentment
- Lake argues Charles and Laud behind it "practiced double act
- Sharpe and Davies Charles "the real initiator"
- Wentworth in Ireland
- Lord Deputy - allows C to extend policies such as Fiscal Feudalism
- Ireland used as a testing ground
- Fear for England
- Scottish Rebellion
- "Watershed" - Smith - visual opposition from now on
- Hundreds of years of war between two provide natural hatred
- 1625 - Revocations
- C has right to take land from the Scottish
- Seen as negative allows C to remodel church
- C has right to take land from the Scottish
- Presbytarianism
- Scottish form of Protestantism
- View C as Catholic
- Fear of Catholic revolution
- View C as Catholic
- Scottish form of Protestantism
- Coronation
- 1633 - Charles formal coronation as King of Scotland
- 23rd July 1637 -Sunday
- Prayerbook used for first time
- Scots opposed in Edinburgh
- C no compromise and declares war on Scotland vs National Covenant in 1638
- Scots opposed in Edinburgh
- Prayerbook used for first time
- Hampden's Case - November 1637-June 1638
- C prosecutes John Hampden over the non payment of Ship Money
- 20% collection rate 1639-40 from 90% in 34/35
- result of SR
- Charles wins 7-5
- Underlying doscontent
- Kent Gentry - 1637 show discontent
- Edward Hyde
- Royalist
- 1640 - Political nation united against Charles and the abuses of the personal rule
- Royalist
- Examples of Puritan opposition
- Prynne,Burton and Bastwick
- Opposed Laudian reforms published pamphlets attacking them
- Brought before the Star Chamber - 1637 - guilty
- Sympathy from Calvanist majority
- Brought before the Star Chamber - 1637 - guilty
- Opposed Laudian reforms published pamphlets attacking them
- St Gregory's Case 1633
- Parish in London - Parishioners brought to court over the moving of the altar.
- Emigration
- 1630s Puritans emigrate to Dutch republic and USA as a reaction to imposition of Laudianism - protestant state - makes them feel at home.
- 15,000 go to America to see new world
- Prynne,Burton and Bastwick
- The Court
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