history

• Divine right of King


  Doctrine that believed that kings were al powerful and their actions were derived from God
• Personal Rule


  The longest period Charles ruled without Parliament (11 years, 1629-1640)
• William Laud


  Archbishop of Canterbury
• New religious prayer book


  What the Scots objected to having imposed
• Ship tax


  Tax extended in 1636. Made to pay for protection in coastal areas
• The year Charles ran out of money

  1640
• Grand Remonstrance


  A long list of complaints about the years of personal rule
• The year a rebellion broke out in Ireland


  1641
• The year the Civil War broke out

  1642
• Ideology


  A system of beliefs and ideas
• Divinity


  He was appointed by God
• Ideology

  A system of beliefs and ideas
• Prerogative


  Special privilege that only you have
• Counsel


  A constitution, a system of rules which govern a country
• Seditious


  To challenge or question authority
• Scripture


  Passed new laws
• Legislation


  Passed new laws
• King James I (VI of Scotland) became the king of England


  1603
• Mary, Queen of Scots


  James I's mother
• Protestantism


  The type of Protestantism James I was brought up in was Calvinism
• James I made peace with Spain

  1604
• Recusancy fines


  The fine imposed on Catholics who did not attend Anglican church services
• Robert Catesby


  Leader of the Gunpowder Plot
• The Gunpowder Plot took place

  1605
• The plotters intended to blow up

  The Parliament buildings
• King Charles I came to the throne

  1625
• George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham


  Charles I's favourite courtier, who was murdered in 1628
• Ship Tax


  The tax imposed on the English people between 1629 and 1640
• The 11 year tyranny


  The period from 1629-1640 when Charles I ruled without Parliament, as described by his critics
• William Laud


  Archbishop of Canterbury during the 11 year tyranny
• A new prayer book


  What Charles I and William Laud tried to impose on the Scots
• John Pym


  The MP who was the leader of the Parliamentarians before the Civil War, not Cromwell
• The English Civil War broke out

  1642
• Edgehill


  A famous Civil War battle
• Longford House


  Was burned down during the Civil War
• Charles I was executed

  1649
• Regicide


  The term used to describe the act of killing a monarch
• Matthew Hopkins


  Witchfinder general
• Great Fire of London broke out

  2 Sept 1666
• Location of fire outbreak

  Pudding Lane