James 1
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- James: context
- What were the problems that James inherited?
- country at war
- religious tension
- taxes were not in line with inflation
- inherited chief minister: William Cecil
- James is from Scotland
- a few people wanted someone else on the throne
- parliament wanted him to understand their privileges
- What was William Cecil's personality?
- competent
- ruthless politician
- cunning and clever
- What was the religion of James' wife and mother and what religion did his kingdom have compared to his new one?
- Presbyterian → Protestant
- Catholic wife and mother
- What war did James inherit?
- the Spanish war
- campaign against Catholic Spanish backed rebels was nearing an end
- war was at a stalemate
- What finances did James inherit?
- £350 000 debts
- Elizabeth
- parliamentary subsidies: coming in to cover debts of the war, short term solution
- James made his financial situation worse
- subsidies: not increase with inflation nor did the rents from crown lands
- Describe Elizabeth?
- frugal: saved where she could and took where she could
- debt from wars
- Who's son was chief minister William Cecil and was he a good reformer?
- son of a famous chief minister: Burghley
- not a great reformer
- 'what was James' personality like?:: pragmatic'
- What did the different religious groups hope for when James became king?
- Puritan: hoped for church reform as he was from a protestant country
- Catholics: hoped he would relax penal laws allowing them to worship in private and not be forced to attend Anglican services
- Why did the parliament want to clarify their privileges to the king?
- he was from a country wherein the parliament had less power
- motivation: fear of absolutism
- 'what opposition did James have from court when he became king?:: remove him from the throne and replace him with his cousin Arabella Stuart, those noblemen were imprisoned including Sir Walter Raleigh'
- Explain the divine right of kings during James' reign?
- God's will
- decisions of monarch not to be challenged
- royal prerogative
- James
- Charles
- Did James believe in divine right and explain why?
- believed in it but remained within the law
- could bring him conflict in the parliament
- seemed close to absolutism sometimes
- 'did Charles believe in Divine Right?:: believed in it but went to the extreme'
- 'what is meant by the term 'live of his own?:: the monarch could not collect taxes in peacetime to support the royal household'
- 'definition of subsidies?:: form of taxation, only parliament could vote subsidies in cases of emergency
- 'when did James' son die and of what?:: 1612, died of Typhoid'
- 'what were James' personal preferences?:: homosexual, had favourites, gave his favourites too much power for the Parliament's liking'
- 'how were James' political skills?:: clever, divine right'
- 'was James ahead of his time?:: no witches no smoking'
- Claim to the English Throne
- 'what was James' belief in Divine Right of Kings?:: God made him King of Scotland, God's will to make him King of England too'
- 'what was James' claim to the English Throne?:: descendent of Henry VII - Arabella Stuart was his only rival: was locked up in…
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