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Summary OCR A Level History The Early Stuarts & the Origins of the Civil war
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1. How much debt did James inherit from Elizabeth?: •£420,000, but only had
to pay £20,00
•debts totalled over 1 million pounds after war with spain
2. How much did James spend on his family?: •sons wedding and daughter
funeral totalled £116,000
3. What impact did James treasurer Lionel crandield have?: • extra £4,000 a
year from custom farmers
•budgeting over £100,000 on navy, ordnance and the wardrobe
•cut military expenditure
4. What did parliament do to James subsidies?: •decreased them massively in
comparison to Elizabeth's, she got £132,000 and James got £72,000
5. What also did James inherit from Elizabeth that was corrupt?: •taxing
system, people was assessed by commissions which was mainly your neighbours,
and taxes were therefore assessed to be much lower than they actually should've
been
6. What was Buckingham's income tax assessed to be?: •£400, when his
income was close to £400,000
7. Why did James expenditure on his family seem very extravagant?: • Eliza-
beth died the virgin queen so had no family or people she supported financially
•it was inevitable that James would spend more on his family than Elizabeth did
8. How much did James gift James Hay?: The gifts totalled £400,000
9. Why was James gifting highlighted?: •Elizabeth was very frugal with gifts,
that meant that There was a demand for James to satisfy with gifting
•especially as he was Scottish and disliked to start with
10. How much did James gift in comparison to Elizabeth?: •£80,000 a year in
comparison to £30,000 from Elizabeth
11. What example is there of James being Rex Pacificus?: •Treaty of London
1604 that ended the long, expensive war with Spain
12. What example if there of James keeping the peace to do with his chil-
dren?: •he tried to balance the Protestant alliance with a catholic marriage be-
tween his son, Charles and the infanta Maria.
•although it was completed, long negotiations with Spain went no war
13. How was James a mediator and help make settlements?: •settled a war
between Sweden and Denmark in 1613, negotiated a settlement of the Julich
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Cleves dispute in 1614 and how he married his daughter Elizabeth to Frederick
of the Platinate.
14. Why was James foreign policy successful?: Made lots of alliances and
gained parliaments support for most of the decisions
15. What did the Spanish match over the marriage of Charles and the infants
Maria result in?: •hostility
16. Why was the Spanish match a failure?: •the Madrid trip 1623, Charles and
Buckingham went to Madrid to claim the lady's hand in person, as they were
impatient.
•it was misunderstood by Spaish, who assumed that Charles was going to become
Cathlic
17. Why was the failure of the Spanish match not James fault?: •it wasn't
directly James fault as it was the actions of Charles and Buckingham, as they went
to Spain without James consent
18. What was James involvement in the 30 years war?: •he arranged the
marriage between Elizabeth and Frederick of the Platinate
•Frederick took the vacant throne of the Holy Roman Empire, ended up as refugees
in The Hague
19. Why wasn't James involvement with the 30 years war not his fault?: •Fred-
erick asked James for advice but didn't wait to receive it. James actually disagreed
with Frederick taking the throne, therefore he didn't cause the war
20. What was Buckingham blamed for in 1625?: •Mansfield expedition, very
expensive cost £25,000
21. Why by 1626 was Buckingham the main problem for Charles?: •both
Houses of Parliament opposed him
22. Why did the Houses of Parliament hate Buckingham?: •blamed for the
Cadiz exhibition, as he was lord Adrimal
23. Why was it clear that parliament didn't like Buckingham? (Before person-
al rule): • after the arrest of Arundel and Bristol, two of Buckingham's enimies
•after there release parliament demanded that Buckingham was dismissed and
Charles dissolved parliament
24. Why was Buckingham cause so much tension between Parliament and
Charles?: •had so many foreign policy failures, La Rochelle, Cadiz and Mansfield
expedition
•these were expensive, so Charles had to ask parliament for more money
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25. What did the first parliament do that annoyed Charles?: •only offered him
tonnage and poundage for a year
•wanted Charles to address their grievances before granting subsides, Charles
wanted money for the Cadiz exhibition
26. What happend at both the 1626 and 1628 parliament?: •again they were
determined to only grant supplies if Charles addressed their grievances
27. What did Charles have to do as a result of the 1626 and 1628 parliament?-
: •rely on forced loans and imprison those who refused to pay, continued to collect
tonnage and poundage (which was illegal)
28. What did parliament do as a result of Charles continuing to collect
tonnage and poundage?: •petition of right, which meant Charles couldn't collect
taxes or loans without the consent of parliament
29. Why did the petition of right annoy Charles?: •it limited his prerogative
powers and his right to impose martial laws and raise arbitrary taxes
30. What foreign policy failure happend in 1626?: Cadiz expedition
31. What was the aim for the Cadiz expedition?: •make fortunes in attacking
spainsh shipping
32. Why did the Cadiz expedition annoy parliament?: •was a complete failure,
it was badly supplied and organised,
•it was a very expensive mistake, parliament granted Charles two subsides around
£140,000 towards the expedition and said they'd grant no more
33. Why was the Cadiz exhibition Buckingham's fault?: He was lord admiral
34. What happend in 1625 in terms of religion and parliament?: •parliament
complained that Charles wasn't enforcing penal laws strongly enough and renewed
their attacks on Richard Montagu
35. What's the tension caused by Richard Montagu being attacked?: •Charles
defended Montagu, which worried parliament as they were worried about the rise
of Arminianism, dissolved parliament
36. What was the three resolutions 1629?: •claimed that it was treasonable to
bring in innovations into religion, Charles adjourned parliament as it was clear that
neither himself or MPs were going to budge and weren't going to give tonnage and
poundage for life
37. What was the strengths of the monarchy that James inherited?: •religious
stability, religious compromise between Protestantism
•Presbyterianism was crushed
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