The Restoration Settlement of CII, 1660
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- The Restoration Settlement, 1660
- CONSITUTIONAL
- Triennial Act 1664
- Parl should meet every 3 years, but created no mechanism for forcing the King to comply
- Power of the King remained the same as it did in 1641
- Royal Prerogative largely restored
- Monarchy wasn't absolute
- Act of Indemnity and Oblivion, 1660
- Militia Act
- Army and Navy placed in King's hands
- King kept power to appoint ministers
- Triennial Act 1664
- LAND
- Royalists whose estates had been sequestered and sold by parl able to get them back
- Royalists who had sold land to pay Decimation Tax - little chance of compensation
- Main source of income for the gentry
- Most land returned to previous owners prior to ECW
- Royalists whose estates had been sequestered and sold by parl able to get them back
- FINANCE
- King has own finances
- Restore royal land
- Hearth Tax
- the assessment tax
- reintroduced the excise tax
- Solvent in 1680s but in debt to Louis XIV
- parl have the 'power of the purse'
- RELIGION
- Corporation Act, 1661
- Licensing Act, 1662
- Five Mile Act 1665
- Conventicle Act, 1664
- Quaker Act, 1662
- Charles wants toleration - Worcester House Declaration, 1660
- Declaration's of Indulgence
- Test Acts
- CONSITUTIONAL
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