Charles and Early Parliaments

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Charles and Early Parliaments

Advantages

  • Parliament gave Charles £140,000 worth of subsidies in 1625
  • Forced Loan raised £250,000 and some clergy supported it

Disadvantages

  • Charles politically underdeveloped, bad speaker, firm belief in his Divine Right
  • Issues over Henrietta Maria's Catholicism
  • 1625 Parliament- Charles needed £600,000 for war but parliament wanted more details, gave him £140,000 but only gave him tonnage and poundage for one year instead of whole reign
  • Failure of the Expedition of Cadiz in 1626- Buckingham inadequate military leader, loss of honour
  • York House Conference 1626-  Buckingham took side of Arminianism which parliament saw as a threat
  • 1626 Parliament Eliot and Bristol tried to impeach Buckingham and demanded his dismissal before subsidies were granted
  • 1627 Forced Loan- illegal tax although raised £240,000, 5 Knights Case, but judges said Charles did have prerogative right to imprison them
  • Failure of La Rochelle Expedition 1627- lost 8000 soldiers and achieved nothing
  • 1628-9 parliament attacked royal prerogative of taxes and imprisonment
  • Petition of Right drawn up, tried to stop Charles interpreting prerogative how he wanted - Charles signed because needed money for La Rochelle
  • Further divide when Buckingham assassinated in 1628, called the 'cause of all our miseries'
  • 1929 parliament 3 resolutions saying Arminians and all those paying and collecting customs duties were enemies of the state- Charles dissolved parliament and didn't call again for 11 years

Evaluation

Very bad relations with parliament, mainly over what and was not prerogative and Buckingham

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