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By: Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley H. S.
Chappaqua, NY
Adapted by: Mr. Reiner Kolodinski
By: Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley H. S.
Chappaqua, NY
Adapted by: Mr. Reiner Kolodinski
EnglishConstitutionalMonarchy
The Stuart Monarchy
James I [r. 1603-1625]– House of StuartMary, Q of Scots son
James I’s speech to the House of Commons:
“I am surprised that my ancestors should ever be permitted such an institution to come into existence. I am a stranger, and found it here when I arrived, so that I am obliged to put up with what I cannot get rid of!”
Attitude = Divine Right!!Star Chamber courts used… no Parliamentary courts…
James I [r. 1603-1625]• Strong Anglican
– Anti-Puritan– Separatists leave
England…Plymouth Pilgrims
• Anti-Parliament– Customs Duties
imposed ($$) to avoid Parliament
• Catholic alliances• Jamestown, VA…
– Anti-tobacco
Ship Money Assessments, 1636[per square mile]
What could account for the differences in assessments
(duties / taxes) for the different
regions of the country?
King James Bible, 1611
Sponsored the
publication of this English
version of the Bible…
Royal Influences
Charles I [r. 1625-1649]• Anti-Parliament
– Tariffs, duties, taxes and quartering troops
• Petition of Right
– Parliament must approve taxes
– No quartering troops
– No imprisonment without just cause
The Petition of Rights, 1628
Nicknamed “The Stuart Magna Carta”
Original Magna Carta issued 1215
Against royal abuse of power
Contract between King & Nobles
Limited the power of the King
Guaranteed Rights… Jury, Due Process
Required Parliament’s consent on taxes
The Many Faces of Charles I
Charles I
by Van Dyck (1633)
Thomas WentworthEarl of Stafford
• Hired by Charles I to raise money for the crown
• Centralized government
• Sought new revenue sources
• Enforced and extended laws
• Angered Parliament and the people
Archbishop William Laud
• Forced religious conformity in Britain– Book of Common Prayer– Puritans & Presbyterians
protested
• Scots rebelled… $ req’d
• “Short Parliament”– “Power of the Purse”– Parliament seeks
cooperation– Charles dissolves
Parliament
The Long Parliament 1640-
1660• Charles I called on Parliament for military
operation funding vs. Scots in rebellion
• Parliament religiously & politically divided
• Parliament suspended royal decrees
• Laud & Wentworth impeached AND executed by Parliament
• Parliament invaded by Charles I & then passes Military Ordinance >> civil war!
Allegiance of
Members of the Long
Parliament
(1640-1660)
Civil War (1621-1649)
Royalists(Cavaliers)Royalists
(Cavaliers)Parliamentarians
(Roundheads)Parliamentarians
(Roundheads)
a House of Lords
a N & W England
a Aristocracy
a Large landowners
a Church officials
a More rural, less prosperous
† House of Commons
† S & E England
† Puritans
† Merchants
† Townspeople
† More urban , more prosperous
Oliver Cromwell [1599-1658]The “Interregnum” Period [1649-1660]† Roundheads prevail in Civil War
† Thomas Hobbes – “Leviathan”
† Oliver Cromwell establishes a Puritan Republic aka Commonwealth (1649-1653)
† Abolished House of Lords, monarchy & official church
† Executed Charles I publicly
† Conquered Scotland & Ireland… BRUTAL TACTICS used
† Disbanded Parliament 1653
Oliver Cromwell [1599-1658]The “Interregnum” Period [1649-
1660]• The Protectorate (1654-60) = dictatorship
• Cromwell is Lord Protector
• Strict Puritan rule• Prohibited theatre, dance,
alcohol, etc.• Limited rights• Religious conformity• Ended 1658 @ Cromwell’s
death
New Model Army Soldier’s Catechism
• Puritan Rule or else
• Atrocities vs. Irish Catholics
• Military rule = martial law– Limited Freedoms
The Public Beheading of Charles I
Why is this execution so significant?
King Charles II [r. 1660-1685] The Restoration Perioda Had charm, poise, &
political skills.
a Restored the theaters, reopened the pubs and brothels closed during the Cromwell’s Protectorate Era
a Favored religious toleration.
a Secret Catholic sympathies.
a Avoided father’s mistakes
King Charles II [r. 1660-1685]a 1661 “Cavalier” Parliament [Royalists]
Disbanded the Puritan army.
Pardoned most Puritan rebels.
Restored the authority of the Church of England.
a 1662 Clarendon Code [Act of Uniformity]
Anglican religious conformity = All had to use the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.
Forbade “non-conformists” to worship publicly, teach their faith, or attend English universities… Catholics, Presbyterians, Jews
King Charles II [r. 1660-1685]
a American “Restoration Colonies”= “Carolinas”
a 1673 Test Act
Parliament excluded all but Anglicans from civilian and military positions…“Puritan Radicals” / “Catholic Traitors”
1679 Habeas Corpus Act
Any unjustly imprisoned persons could obtain a writ of habeas corpus = govt. must explain why imprisoned.
Charles II’s Foreign Policy1665 – 1667: Second Anglo-Dutch
Wara Uses Louis XIV as
ideal ally against the Dutch… Catholic sympathies, $$ to be made!
a 1670 Treaty of Dover = E + F vs. Dutch
a Declaration of Indulgence rescinds Clarendon Code
“The Popish Plot 1678”• Titus Oates swore
Catholics were plotting to assassinate King Charles II
• Parliament believed…Hysteria… innocent RCs died… plot proved to be a lie
• Oates condemned & humiliated
King James II [r. 1685-1688]a Bigoted convert to
Catholicism
a Lacked shrewdness or ability to compromise
a Alienated even the Tories.
a Provoked revolution by his attitude
King James II [r. 1685-1688]a Put Catholics into the
High Command of both thearmy and navy.
a Stationed “standing army” outside of London.
a Surrounded himself with Catholic advisors & attackedAnglican control of theuniversities.
a Claimed the power to suspend or dispense with Acts of Parliament.
a 1687 Declaration of Liberty of Conscience
He extended religious toleration to RC’s without Parliament’s approval or support.
The “Glorious” Revolution: 1688a Whig & Tory leaders offer the throne
jointly to James II’s daughter Mary [raised a Protestant] & her husband, William of Orange.
He was a vigorous enemy of Louis XIV.
He was seen as a champion of the Protestant cause.
English Bill of Rights [1689]a Constitutional
Monarchy
a Settled all major issues between King & Parliament.
a Served as a model for the U.S. Bill of Rights.
a Basis for the steady expansion of civil liberties of 18c and early 19c England.
English Bill of Rights [1689]a Main provisions:
1. The King could not suspend laws.
2. The King could not interfere with course of justice.
3. No taxes levied or standard army maintained in peacetime without Parliament’s consent.
4. Freedom of speech in Parliament.
5. Sessions of Parliament would be held frequently.
6. Subjects had the right of bail, petition, and freedom from excessive fines and cruel and unusual punishment.
7. The monarch must be a Protestant.
8. Freedom from arbitrary arrest.
9. Censorship of the press was dropped.
10.Religious toleration.
Age of Walpole• “House of Hanover” (German)
begins to rule England– Act of Settlement 1701 orderly shift
in power if K/Q are childless– King George I becomes king 1714
• Robert Walpole becomes PM– England flourished under his
leadership in the 1700s• Maintained peace, increased trade