Key Events In The Personal Rule Flashcards
(13 cards)
‘Halcyon days’ and ‘rich and happy in the lap of peace’
Markkishlanksy on the PR
Many contemporaries remember the 1630s as a golden age. Treaties with France in 1629 and Spain in 1630 removed England from the European war… At home there was comfortable prosperity. Merchants forgot their quarrel with the crown over tonnage and poundage once it became clear how profitable peace would be…. Peace abroad and prosperity at home - considering what came before and after, it was indeed a golden age. Others remember the 1630s as anything but bright and hopeful. In their view this was the decade in which the slide towards chaos began.
James Harrington on the PR
The dissolution of this government caused the war, not the war the dissolution of this government,’
June1629 between England and Spain
Ruben’s came as the envoy of Spain too arrange the exchange of ambassadors, cementing peace between England and Spain
- treaty of Madrid
Englandpeacekeepig with Spain in 1629
-Richelieu sent the marquis de chantéanueuf to England against a spainish alliance however this failed as England wanted peace with very catholic spain
1629peace w France
Treaty of suza signed
T+P in personal rule
Raised 270k a year
1632 catholic scandal
Charles built an exclusively catholic chapel for HM
Charles international policy on the death of Frederick
-When in 32 Frederick died Charles sent his sister Elizabeth money as a widow but withdrew from any involvement in the 30 year war, refusing to recover the palatinate from catholics
- made peace but removed his character as a defender of protestant faith/made him look more malleable
Charles coronation in Scotland
-Charles was crowned in Scotland, 8 years after he had become king,
-many tried to give petitions of grievances but he refused to listen and persecuted the organisers for treason
-suspiciously catholic ceremony in St Giles church opened by Arminian laud
Catholic scandal 1634
Charles welcomed the papal emissary into court, the first since England was catholic to do so
Laud
laud pushed for any more puritan leading leaders, Robert heath for example, to be dismissed so to not rebuke religious changes
