The Cabal Ministry
- Created by: Pippa
- Created on: 01-06-13 14:40
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- The Cabal Ministry, 1667-72
- Financial Policy
- Clifford & Cooper in charge
- Policy of Retrenchment - more income, less expenditure
- 1670 - in debt by £2mil/year
- 1671 - 'Stop of the Exchequer' - refused to pay debts
- 1670 - Secret Treaty of Dover
- Finance never really sorted, constantly overspends
- Religious Policy
- CII - toleration, Parliament - repression
- 1670 - 2nd Conventicle Act
- 1672 - 2nd Declaration of Indulgence
- 1673 - CII agrees to 1st Test Act
- CII's religious policies influenced by lack of money - 'power of the purse', parliament control them
- Foreign Policy
- 1670 - Treaty of Dover = Alliance with the French
- 1672-74 - 3rd Anglo-Dutch War
- Collapse of the Cabal
- 1673-74 = disintegration. Clifford committed suicide in 1673
- Cooper - sacked for impertinence
- Arlington and Buckingham fall out over who's to blame for the Dutch War failure
- Eventually, Buckingham dismissed and Arlington gives up
- 1674 - Ministry had collapsed
- Failed in religious policies
- made alliance with France (one aim) but failed by 1674
- policies increased suspicion of Catholicism
- Financial Policy
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