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handy revision guide for learning about Charles I's Personal Rule , with detailed notes about the events in the period of his personal rule applicable to the OCR A level unit: The Early Stuarts and the Origins of the Civil War 1603–1660 and any units on Charles I

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Charles I Personal Rule 1629-1640


William Laud Instructions 1633
 rules for bishops to enforce
 control of preaching
 increase of ceremony
 position of the altar
 strict conformity to ‘Book of Common Prayer’ and 39 Articles
 would upset the Puritans as it was restricting their ways of things
The Altar
 Laud insisted on them being in the east so only the minister was allowed to approach it, to
emphasize the status of the minister
 would upset Puritans as it was ruining their style of church
Destruction of Puritanism
 preaching on predestination was banned
 licenses from lecturers were taken away as their ideas were too Puritanism
The Book of Sports 1633
 encouraged dancing, archery etc
 Puritans objected most activities on Sundays apart from bible reading, or attending church
FACED LOTS OF OPPOSITION
Financial Problems at start of  reliant on ordinary income with no access to Parliamentary money
Personal Rule  foreign policy- left debt of over £1 million dollars

Distraint of Knighthoods  revived money raising device
 fining people for not claiming their knighthoods, as men with estates worth over £40 per
year were meant to be knighted
 raised £170,000 {3 subsidies}
Forest Fines  revived money raising device
 getting fined for building on royal land
 Rockingham Forest- expanded from 6 square miles to 60 square miles
 Earl of Salisbury- fined £20,000
Nuisances  revived money raising device
 people were forced to buy a license for committing a nuisance {building outside the walls of
the City}
Monopolies  further exploited by Charles
 allowed only one company/business to sell a particular product, where this company could
increase prices as they were the only business that sold this product
 Sir Richard Weston- soap monopoly known as ‘popish soap’ as it was a group of Catholics
 £750,000 gained
Court of Wards  further exploited by Charles
 continued to exploit wardships
 £83,000 gained from 1638-1640
Customs Farmers  further exploited by Charles
 King- appointed people to collect the custom duties on products, this person would give the
King a large sum of money that they thought would be the amount they collected, raised the
tax prices to earn profits
 majorly affected poor merchants
Ship Money Before
 coastal towns- occasionally been required to provide ships in times of emergency, and
charged most inhabitants a rate and sent money rather than ships
 JP’s- ordered to collect ship money and it raised problems
Charles
 1635- extended to all counties, tax collected every year until 1640
 essentially establishing a new annual tax without Parliament’s consent
 offered long term financial independence
John Hampden 1637
 refused to pay ship money and challenged the legality of the tax in courts
 significance- test case, arguments revolved around whether the King had the right to declare
an emergency and tax subjects, 7:5 in King’s favour but was narrow margin, even though
Hampden was found guilty, non- payment increased to 20% in 1638
Policy of Thorough  ultimately wanted to make royal government more efficient, strengthen the King’s power

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