Personal Rule 1629-1640
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- Created on: 09-05-13 13:40
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Personal Rule 1629-40
- 11 years without parliament
- Finance methods took away the rights of the people
- religion threatened the broad church of James
- Foreign policy was english neutrality favouring spain
- growing fear of r/c absolutism that charles did little about
Religion
Aims
- restore the 'beauty of holiness' to churches and services
- to make the church more powerful and influential
- educate the clergy and make them 'equal to any gentleman'
Opposition to Laud
- 1633 Laud became the Bishop of Canterbury
- Laudian Bishops enforced their ideology onto the people, regardless of what they want
- Opposed by the gentry for his political power in the Royal Council/supporting diving right
- laudian reforms worked against the gentry and there were R/C elements in services
- everything he did had some political aim
- puritans hated the 'beauty of holiness' and the noticeable differences in services
- Offered cardinal but denied it with 'rom how it is' which was not against catholicism.
Laudian Reforms
- All bishops that died were replaced with Laudian bishops
- Parish priest was made independent of the gentry and the gentry pews were remove - this undemined social structure and the CofE natyre of the church and showed Laud's lack of respect for rank and dignity
- "that pestilential stye of all filth"
- Church courts were made to be as powerful as possible
Laud's Political Influence
- He sat in every church court and was involved in fining the gentry with the fence tax
- Laud used the hated Star Chamber to punish his political enemies
- Bishop Juxon was made Lord Treasurer in 1636 which was a sign that the church were running the government
Burton, Bastwick and Prynne
- 1637
- Showed Lauds indifference to public opinion and his determination to enforce the power of the church
- These gentlemen were treated like common criminals with Pillory for criticising the new church
- The became public martyrs for the protestant/puritan cause and the public laid…
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