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Government, Revolution and Society in Wales and England c.1603-1715

Charles I and the drift to conflict

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  • AS Unit 1

Overview

Personal Rule, ship Money and short Parliament.

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Who was Archbishop Laud, and what did he impose?

Key term

What was the Forced Loan of 1626, and why was it contentious?

Numbers

What was the Personal Rule?

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    When did Charles I come to the throne?

    Model answer

    1625.

  2. 2

    What was the Forced Loan of 1626, and why was it contentious?

    Model answer

    A non-parliamentary levy demanded after Parliament refused supply, contentious because taxation without consent was held to be unlawful.

  3. 3

    What was the Five Knights' Case?

    Model answer

    The 1627 case in which gentlemen imprisoned for refusing the Forced Loan were denied bail, raising the question of imprisonment without stated cause.

  4. 4

    What did the Petition of Right demand, and in what year?

    Model answer

    In 1628 it demanded no taxation without parliamentary consent, no imprisonment without cause shown, no billeting of soldiers on civilians and no martial law in peacetime.

  5. 5

    What was the Personal Rule?

    Model answer

    The eleven years from 1629 to 1640 during which Charles I governed without summoning Parliament.

  6. 6

    Name three financial expedients of the Personal Rule.

    Model answer

    Ship Money, distraint of knighthood, and the revival of forest law fines, with monopolies also exploited.

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