The Restoration of the Church of England
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- The restoration of the Church of England
- Clarendon Code 1661-1665
- The Corporation Act of 1661: restricted non-Anglicans from sitting on borough corporations.
- The Act of Uniformity of 1662: parish priests should accept the Book of Common Prayer.
- 1,800 ministers refused to conform and were expelled from the church.
- The Conventicle Act of 1664: restricted dissenters from meeting in groups outside the church.
- The Five Mile Act: forbade expelled ministers from going within five miles of their former parishes.
- Declaration of Indulgence
- First Declaration of Indulgence 1662
- Charles attempted to suspend the Act of Uniformity, which would have allowed for both dissenters and catholics to worship with relative freedom.
- Resisted by a combination of bishops in the House of Lords and by MPs.
- Second Declaration of Indulgence 1672
- With Parliament not in session Charles issued another declaration. As long as Parliament was not sitting the declaration remained.
- Charles was facing major financial problems and had to suspend payments to his creditors in what was known as the Stop of the Exchequer.
- Charles had to turn to parliament for funds.
- First Declaration of Indulgence 1662
- Test Act 1673
- Charles needed funds and had to turn to Parliament.
- MPs insisted on the passing of a test act in place of the Indulgence, which forced holders of public office to deny key catholic doctrines.
- Every time Charles attempted to introduce toleration this resulted in a harsher test act. the political nation wanted to protect anglican supremacy.
- The Secret Treaty of Dover, 1670 and 1675
- Charles had a pro-French foreign policy. Fought the Second Anglo-Dutch War between 1665-1667.
- Ended in disaster when the Dutch were able to break the chain that blocked the medway river in 1667 and destroyed 13 English ships.
- Charles signed the Treaty of Dover in 1670 with the French committing England to further war with the Dutch.
- Public unaware a secret clause that Charles would convert to Catholicism at an appropriate time, in exchange for French subsidies.
- A second pact with Louis XIV in 1675 gave Charles a larger pension. 1681 £100,000. Enabled Personal Rule until the end of his reign.
- Clarendon Code 1661-1665
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