Unit 1C - Britain, 1625-1701: conflict, revolution and settlement
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Unit 1C - Britain, 1625-1701: conflict, revolution and settlement
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1600
• Migrants are 35% of population in Norwich
• 242 merchants agreed to create East India Company
• EIC given £68,000 for ships, gold and silver to trade with
1601
• The Poor Relief Act
1605
• Gunpowder Plot
1620
• Baconian Method outlines in Novum Organum
1623
• Charles and Buckingham go to Spain to set up marriage with King of Spain’s daughter (the Infanta)
• EIC company officials executed by Dutch for attempting to expel Dutch from their base
1625
• Charles succeeds James I
• Charles marries Henrietta Maria (French Catholic)
• Excise tax (Tonnage and Poundage) only granted for 1 year NOT for life
• Charles takes Richard Montagu under his wing (published attack on Calvinist doctrine, towards Arminianism) -
A New Gag for An Old Goose
• Anglo-Spanish War - attack on Cadiz
• (June) - First parliament
- raise money for war against Spain
- Parliament restricted Tonnage and Poundage to only one year
- Dissolved parliament in august without achieving aims
1626
• Parliament attempts to impeach the Duke of Buckingham
• (Feb) Second Parliament
- raise funds for military exploits
• (June) Dissolved Parliament
• Charles introduced proclamation that forbade public discussion of sensitive doctrine (restriction on preaching
for Calvinists and Puritans etc)
• Francis Bacon dies
1627
• England goes to war with France after (Oct) La Rochelle (ends in 1629) - Buckingham fails to help the French
Huegnots (a religious issue)
• Forced Loans
• Five knights case (refused to pay forced loan - sentenced against habeas corpus)
• Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbot, briefly suspended for refusing to grant an Arminian sermon
• EIC sells pepper in bulk
1628
• Petition of Right - restricts power of Charles (no forced loans)
• Duke of Buckingham assassinated (Charles and his Catholic wife get closer)
• William Laud appointed Bishop of London (in Privy Council)
• (March) Third Parliament
• (June) Dissolved Parliament
1629
• Three Resolutions trigger dissolution - Speaker tied in chair
• (March) Personal Rule begins
1630
• Treaty of Madrid (ends war with Spain) - decreased annual revenue by 300K
• 26,000 (0.5% of population) were arrested for vagrancy in 1630s
• Massachusetts received 20,000 Puritans in 1630s
1631
• Book of Orders
1632
, • Thomas Wentworth made Lord Deputy of Ireland
1633
• William Laud made the Archbishop of Canterbury
• High profile members in Privy Council had Catholic wives
• EIC establishes trading port of Madras
1634
• Charles issued a monopoly patent for the production of soap
• Ship money in traditional way
1635
• Ship money extended to inland county
• Charles I welcomed ambassador of the pope to his court
• Peace with Portuguese - EIC control Goa now
1636
• Ship money is an annual tax
• John Hampden refused to pay his ship money (king’s bench trial favoured King’s choice)
1637
• Anglican Book of Common Prayer forced onto the Scots
• Star Chamber sentenced three Puritan writers - Burton, Bastwick and Prynee - sentence was imposed by
Laud (emphasising the increasing influence of Laudian bishops)
1638
• National Covenant to defend the Scottish Kirk
• Office in Royal Exchange that dealt with fires and ships
1639
• Act of Toleration
• First Bishops’ war
• Taxpayers’ strike because they did not want to pay for war with Scots
1640
• (April) Short Parliament (dissolved three weeks later)
• (Nov) Long Parliament (lasts until 1660)
• (Dec) Root and Branch Petition (abolition of episcopacy) defeated
• Congregational Church founded by Henry Jacob has 8 churches
• Scots defeat English at Newburn
• Agricultural production in Britain had exceeded that of all other European countries (except Holland)
• Cloth accounted for 92% of exports our of London
• Charles seized Royal Mint - led to putting precious metals with goldsmith bankers
1641
• Abolition of Star Chamber
• Thomas Wentworth executed - Act of Attainder
• (Oct) Irish Rebellion
• (Nov) Grand Remonstrance - 204 clauses against Charles’ policies
• Ship money declared illegal
• Ten Propositions (against war with Scots)
• Triennial Act
1642
• (Jan) Rumours that Pym wants to impeach Queen
• Charles fails in his attempt to arrest five members of opposition
• Militia Ordinance - place command of army into Parliament’s hands
• (June) Nineteen Propositions (including leading education of King’s children)
• (August) Outbreak of Civil War - The Great Rebellion
• (Oct) royalists gained a marginal advantage at the Battle of Edgehill
• 1000 separatists in a city of 350,000
1643
• Parliamentarians enter into an alliance with the Scots (signed a Solemn League and Covenant)
• Pym establishes an excise tax in parliamentary areas to maintain parliament’s force
• John Pym dies
• Catholics 21+ have to swear an Oath of Abjuration
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