The Restoration - good for Charles?
British Monarchy: the Crisis of State, 1642-1689
- Created by: Alice Rigby
- Created on: 29-05-14 15:58
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- The Restoration - good for Charles?
- Finance
- Good
- Granted a fixed salary
- Still had custom duties and excisetax
- Bad
- Lost income from wardship and purveyance
- Dependent on Parliament for finances
- Good
- Problems caused by Regicide
- Good
- Difficult decisions such as control of Royalist Lands taken out of his control
- Good
- Royal prerogative
- Good
- Issue ignored - therefore Charles had more power than previous monarchs
- Charles still had...
- Control of the Church
- Right to veto legislation
- Right to choose ministers
- Domestic, Foreign and Religious Policy still responsibility of the monarch
- Bad
- Lost prerogative taxation and court rights
- Good
- Religion
- Good
- Had support of the restored C of E
- Bad
- Charles liked toleration - contrast to local elites
- Savoy Conference 1661 - proposals would return England to a traditional religious policy
- Despite Charles reminding Parliament of the toleration promised in the Declaration of Breda
- Good
- Military
- Good
- Finance
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