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Royalty, Revolution and Restoration in Wales and England c.1603-1715

Charles I, the Petition of Right and the Personal Rule

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  • A2 Unit 3

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Forced Loan, personal Rule and ship money.

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Key term

How did Charles I's style of kingship differ from his father's?

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Why was Charles's marriage to Henrietta Maria unpopular?

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What was the Forced Loan?

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  1. 1

    How did Charles I's style of kingship differ from his father's?

    Model answer

    He was reserved, formal and inflexible, kept a decorous and distant court, and treated criticism as disloyalty rather than as bargaining.

  2. 2

    Why was Charles's marriage to Henrietta Maria unpopular?

    Model answer

    She was a French Catholic who kept a Catholic household and chapel at court, which fed fears that popery was being sheltered at the centre of government.

  3. 3

    What went wrong with the wars of the 1620s?

    Model answer

    The expedition to Cadiz in 1625 and Buckingham's attempt to relieve La Rochelle in 1627 both failed disastrously, discrediting the crown and its favourite.

  4. 4

    What was the Forced Loan?

    Model answer

    Charles's demand of 1626 and 1627 that his subjects lend him money without a parliamentary grant, with imprisonment for those who refused.

  5. 5

    What was decided in the Five Knights' Case?

    Model answer

    In 1627 the court upheld the imprisonment of loan refusers on the king's command alone, without cause being shown, which seemed to leave no defence against arbitrary arrest.

  6. 6

    What four things 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.

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