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Charles I - Coggle Diagram
Charles I
Parliaments & Courts
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March 1628-March 1629
MPs willing to cooperate with Charles' demands for subsidies on the terms that their grievances were addressed (Buckingham + Religion)
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5 Knights case
76 people arrested for not paying the loan of 1626. 5 resisted by claiming the right of habeos corpus requiring them to be trailed or released
Charles had prerogative right to imprison without trail, but ONLY in this case
Star Chamber
Held people in high places of society to pay for their crimes insteaad of them paying out of their crimes
Long Parliament 1640
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Triennial act
Parliament must be called at least every three years which insured Charles couldn't ignore parliaments requests and disagreements as he done previously during personal rule.
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5 Members incident: Charles bursts into parliament to arrest Pym and 5 others for impeachments against bishops
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Character
"Didn't posses any if his fathers political shrewdness" + "He did not know the meaning of compromise"~ Barry Coward
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Unapproachable, uncommunicative with parliament
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Finance
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Wanted £1 millions to fight Spain but parliament only granted 2 small subsidies + 1 year of tonnage£age
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Religion
Laudianism
a term given to the followers of Archbishop William Lord all million policies during Charles the fists reign
Beauty of holiness ~ decorations, music, communion
Ceremonies were centred around catechism, much like Catholicism
Laudianism in Scotland
Chales absent in Scotland , his style of ruling alienating the Scottish elite
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Calvinists
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improvised prayers, ministers could speak their minds
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Proclamation 1625
Articles of Perth introduced by James I to impose practices on Scotland to attempt to intergrade it with England
New Canons ~ Improvised prayer banned, had to be red from the prayer book
Personal Rule
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Financial
Distraint of knighthood - fining people who didn't have a knighthood and made less than £40. - £175,000
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Wentworth advised Charles to call parliament to deal with the Scottish covernanters (needed money to pay for the battles, equipment, men)
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Favourites
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Evil councillors
Wentworth
May 1641 Wentworth his trial and executed, the act of attainder was used on Wentworth (Earl of Stratford) declaring him an enemy and sentence him to be heading Charles was forced to sign the act
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