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- - - - Damned inheritance?
        
        fresh start for Parliament
    - - didn't have to rule with a Parl there
      - By English standards not very wealthy
        
        Upon arrival to York, he asked Privy Council for money
        
        Need for money is a dominating theme in his reign
    - - Wrote book 1603 titled “The True Law of Free Monarchies”
        
        stated belief that kings had absolute legal sovereignty within their state, a king had absolute freedom from executive action a king’s sole responsibility was to God.
    - - spent Parliamentary subsidies
        
        after gunpowder plot became closer to Parl an they grant him 3 subsidies
      - lavish spender
        
        coronation cost £20,591
        
        wife got used to fine clothes and jewels
        
        treat family divinely like a a royal family should in his opinion
        
        gifts to his favourites and Scottish folk
        
        to compensate...
        
        sold off crown lands
        
        only short term solution
        
        sold government offices and titles
        
        he didn't consider ability, only price they were willing to pay
        
        caused resentment
    - - they wanted to see James
        
        James replied “God’s wounds! I will pull down my breeches and they shall see my arse!”
  - - - Personality
        
        believed he was capable of out-arguing almost anyone
        
        Problems communicating with those who opposed him
        
        Example 1604 Buckinghamshire Elections
        
        weak argument but stuck to it
        
        first clash with Parl
        
        Pragmatic also
        
        easy going
        
        others saw him as vulgar
        
        didn't act king like
    - - didn't get on but approved flings
        
        James found respite by surrounding himself with young men
- - - - fine with Catholics as long as they were loyal to James
        
        thought the same about moderate Puritans
        
        However thought extreme Puritans were threat to society
      - separated loyal Catholics from Jesuits
  - - - had to think of ways in which he could increase James’s revenue
        
        got more revenue from those who owned Crown land
        
        Bate's Case July 1606
        
        allowed the Crown to impose extra custom dues without the consent of Parliament if the aim was to regulate trade
        
        Great Contract 1610
        
        Stated James would give up his feudal rights in exchange for £200,000 a year
        
        However Parliament distrusted James too much to simply give up his monarchical rights