1628- Petition of Right
Charles I- ‘I have Bonfires lit across
done my part... if When Parliament was recalled in 1628, there was the country in
the parliament a sense of real crisis, and one MP commented that celebration.
have not a happy 1628 was ‘the crisis of parliaments...we shall know
conclusion... I am by this if parliaments live or die’.
done with it.’-- Led by Sir Edward Coke, the House of Commons
relations had put together a Petition of Right. They demanded
broken down the following:
completely- last • no more forced loan or taxes without consent of
straw. Parliament
• no imprisonment without trial
• no more billeting of soldiers
• no use of martial law against citizens.
Parliament offered to grant five subsidies in
exchange for Charles’ signature- he ungraciously
signed.
1628-Assassination of Duke of Buckingham
Assassinated by John Felton- officer in the Ile de
Re expedition and blamed Buckingham for the
country’s military failures.
• The English people rejoiced, with people
shouting ‘Live Ever, Felton!’, and bonfires were
lit as celebration.
• People believed that Charles would now ‘find
his feet’- no longer under great influence.
• Charles’ marriage transformed.
• Charles shared out titles that Buckingham had
monopolised.
Relations between Charles and Parliament after B’s death
• there was resentment over assassination
• the petition of right; Charles forced them to add
statement on King’s royal prerogative
• Tonnage and Poundage- Charles continued to
collect without their permission.
• Charles was continuing to promote Arminian
clergy
• Charles had relaxed recusansy laws- Parliament
worried that he was soft on Catholics.
2nd March 1629- Charles had decided to dissolve Parliament again, so sent a messenger known as ‘Black
Rod’ to close the session. When he arrives, the MPs locked the door and refused to let him in. Speaker
realised what was happening and attempted to close the session, but Eliot and other MPs held him down.
Denzil Holles shouted out three reolutions:
1) Anyone bringing Arminianism into CofE would be ‘capital enemy of the King and Kingdom.’ 2) Anyone
advising the king to collect T+P would be seen as capital enemy. 3) Anyone who paid T+P is capital enemy.
Charles I- ‘I have Bonfires lit across
done my part... if When Parliament was recalled in 1628, there was the country in
the parliament a sense of real crisis, and one MP commented that celebration.
have not a happy 1628 was ‘the crisis of parliaments...we shall know
conclusion... I am by this if parliaments live or die’.
done with it.’-- Led by Sir Edward Coke, the House of Commons
relations had put together a Petition of Right. They demanded
broken down the following:
completely- last • no more forced loan or taxes without consent of
straw. Parliament
• no imprisonment without trial
• no more billeting of soldiers
• no use of martial law against citizens.
Parliament offered to grant five subsidies in
exchange for Charles’ signature- he ungraciously
signed.
1628-Assassination of Duke of Buckingham
Assassinated by John Felton- officer in the Ile de
Re expedition and blamed Buckingham for the
country’s military failures.
• The English people rejoiced, with people
shouting ‘Live Ever, Felton!’, and bonfires were
lit as celebration.
• People believed that Charles would now ‘find
his feet’- no longer under great influence.
• Charles’ marriage transformed.
• Charles shared out titles that Buckingham had
monopolised.
Relations between Charles and Parliament after B’s death
• there was resentment over assassination
• the petition of right; Charles forced them to add
statement on King’s royal prerogative
• Tonnage and Poundage- Charles continued to
collect without their permission.
• Charles was continuing to promote Arminian
clergy
• Charles had relaxed recusansy laws- Parliament
worried that he was soft on Catholics.
2nd March 1629- Charles had decided to dissolve Parliament again, so sent a messenger known as ‘Black
Rod’ to close the session. When he arrives, the MPs locked the door and refused to let him in. Speaker
realised what was happening and attempted to close the session, but Eliot and other MPs held him down.
Denzil Holles shouted out three reolutions:
1) Anyone bringing Arminianism into CofE would be ‘capital enemy of the King and Kingdom.’ 2) Anyone
advising the king to collect T+P would be seen as capital enemy. 3) Anyone who paid T+P is capital enemy.
