Chapter 3

Question 1

Charles I First Parliament

Answer 1

• Also called useless parliament
• sitting only from June until August 1625
• Only gave Charles right to collect T & P for 1 year, along with £140,000 for Spain war

Question 2

The Treaty of Southampton

Answer 2

• September 8
• Makes an alliance between England and the Dutch Republic, against Spain

Question 3

Treaty of the Hague

Answer 3

• December 9
• The Netherlands and England sign military peace treaty for providing economical aid to King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway, during his military campaigns in Germany.

Question 4

main points of importance from Charles’ speech to HoC on 28 March 1626

Answer 4

• Assertion of royal authority reflects Charles’s belief in DROK and his resistance to parliamentary encroachments on his power
• His warning underscores his intolerance of dissent
• Threat of disillusionment reflects Charles’s willingness to use his prerogative powers to maintain control over the political process

Question 5

Main quotes from Charles’ speech to HoC on 28 March 1626

Answer 5

• “you begin to set the dice and make your own game”
• “Remember that if instead of mending your errors, by delay you persist in them, you make them greater and irreconcilable”

Question 6

To all English Freeholders from a Well-Wisher of Theirs

published in late 1626

Anonymous but Probably circulated by the Earl of Lincoln (Puritan opposed to Charles)

Answer 6

Beware and consider what you do concerning these subsidies and loans which are now demanded of you, in case you give away not only your money but your liberty and property. For even if it is promised that it shall not set a precedent against you, yet it will lead to most dangerous consequences and that is its real aim as well as money, the gaining of a precedent to raise money without law, which will lead to the overthrow of Parliament. If this happens, we shall be ourselves the instruments of slavery and the loss of the privilege which we have enjoyed: that our goods cannot be taken from us without consent of Parliament.