Chapter 17: Restoration settlement

Question 1

what did the restoration settlement increase

Answer 1

political tensions between crown and parliament

Question 2

who led a failed rebellion

Answer 2

The fifth Monarchist, Thomas Venner

Question 3

what was the consequence of the failed rebellion by Thomas Venner

Answer 3

• reignited fears of radicalism and produced a massive royalist majority in the subsequent elections
• Parliament elected in 1661 – known as the Cavalier Parliament – didn’t seek reconciliation but instead sought revenge upon those who had collaborated with the republican experiment

Question 4

what was the consequence of the Work of the Cavalier parliament

Answer 4

• left several grey areas for the extent of the royal prerogative that would cause uncertainty and tensions in the following years
• didn’t provide any mechanism for the calling of parliament every three years in the event the King failed to summon a parliament

Question 5

what did Venner’s Rising and the subsequent election of a vengeful parliament consequent in

Answer 5

had an impact on the religious settlement as it strengthened the High Church Party

Question 6

what did the High Church party seek to restore

Answer 6

William Lauds system

Question 7

by who was the Clarendon Code enacted by

Answer 7

Anglican MPs

Question 8

what were the five acts that forced people to conform to the practices of the Anglican Church and sought to persecute dissenters

Answer 8

• the Corporation Act
• Act of Uniformity
• Quaker Act
• Conventicle Act
• the Five Mile act

Question 9

How did Charles challenge the Act of Uniformity

Answer 9

He issued his Declaration of Indulgence in 1662

Question 10

what was the result from Charles issuing his Declaration of Indulgence in 1662

Answer 10

• he was forced to withdraw it quickly, but it set the precedent for further royal challenges to parliament’s religious policy in the 1660s and 1670s
• added to the political instability

Question 11

how much did parliament decide that Charles needed annum

Answer 11

£1.2million

Question 12

how was the £1.2million annum tried to be achieved

Answer 12

granted customs duties and excise taxes to achieve this

Question 13

consequence of trying to raise £1.2 million annum

Answer 13

• money was never achieved which frustrated Charles
• end of 1660, the crown had already debts of almost £1 million

Question 14

What was issued to try and remedy the debt of £1million and did it work

Answer 14

• hearth tax was introduced in 1661
• only raised a third of the expected revenue of £250,000 in the first year

Question 15

what was Parliament angered by involving Charles

Answer 15

Charles’s extravagance and frivolous spending which soured relations

Question 16

why was Charles annoyed at parliament

Answer 16

he was frustrated at what he thought to be parliament’s attempts to use control of finance to restrict his ability to rule

Question 17

what was made appealing to Charles due to the sour relations with his parliament and why

Answer 17

• alliance with France even more appealing
• the potential subsides offered the hope of freeing himself from financial dependence on parliament