The Hampton Court Conference
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The Hampton Court Conference took place in January 1604. The conference was in response to the Millenary Petition so that the issues raised by it could be discussed in a formal setting. Many of the signatories of the Millenary Petition were very well aware that James I had a
James I and Crown Land
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James I was not the first English monarch to experience financial trouble. Chief Minister Robert Cecil, the Earl of Salisbury, used numerous methods to bail out James who was a king who had little understanding of finance. Farming out custom dues and impositions were both used. Though they were
James I and Impositions
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Impositions were introduced purposely and formally in the reign of James I. Impositions were a new source of royal income and were introduced in an effort to keep up with royal expenditure and also in an effort to reduce royal debt – both seemingly very difficult tasks for the
James I and Custom Farms
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James was a profligate spender of royal revenue and his Chief Minister Robert Cecil knew that any change would take time. The financial position of the Crown had been eroded by over 50 years of inflation. But one area targeted by Cecil was an area all but untouched by
James I and Royal Revenue
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James I has always been viewed as an extravagant king who gave no thought to finance – if James wanted something, he had it regardless of cost. When James became king in 1603, he described himself as being “like a poor man wandering about forty years in a wilderness
James and the Church
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The Church played a much larger part in the lives of all people in the C17th than it does today. “The thinking of all English people was dominated by the Church.” (C Hill) Why did the era from 1603 to 1640 witness a challenge to the power and to
Theatres in Tudor England
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The growth of theatres in Tudor England, and especially in the reign of Elizabeth, is very much associated with this era. Along with sports and pastimes, theatres provided the workers with some form of break from work. Plays, as we would recognise them, first started in the Middle Ages
Sir Walter Raleigh
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Sir Walter Raleigh was an Elizabethan explorer and scholar. Sir Walter Raleigh advocated the colonisation of what we now call the United States of America and, for right or wrong, Raleigh will always be associated with the introduction of the potato and tobacco into England. Sir Walter Raleigh
The execution of Mary
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The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots was witnessed by numerous invited people even though it was done indoors at Fortheringhay Castle. The following report of Mary’s execution was written by one of those witnesses for Elizabeth’s ministers. There seems to be a general agreement that Mary died a
The Treaty of Nonsuch
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The Treaty of Nonsuch was signed in August 1585. The treaty finally led to England providing the Dutch rebels in the Netherlands with a small military force that would aid the rebels in their fight against Spain. The Treaty of Nonsuch was a triumph for ministers such as Leicester