1629-1640

• Charles £2million in debt at start of Personal Rule
• (William) Noy's Report (1631)


  Crown Revenue increase 25%; Fined those living within Edward III's boundaries (Forest Fines - £40k), those who'd refused knighthoods and those who'd built within London City walls
• Ship Money

  Coastal Towns (October 1634) and Nationwide (1635); raised £300,000 per year at 90% compliance
• Hampden's Case


  November 1637; Charles only won 7-5
• Ship Money compliance


  91% in 1637 -> 25% in 1639
• Laud made Archbishop of Canterbury


  1633
• Book of Sports in England


  1633
• Policies of Laud (4)

  Beauty of Holiness, Increased status of ministers, prayer>preaching, altar importance
• English Puritan migration


  20,000 to Massachusetts, 1,350 to Holland from Norfolk
• Laud issues new Scottish canons without discussion with Scottish Church

  1636
• New Scottish Prayer Book

  1637 - led to rebellion (Jenny Geddes at St Giles Cathedral)
• Scottish National Covenant rejects Lauding canons/prayer book

  February 1638
• First Bishops War

  1639; cost Charles £600,000; led to Short Parliament (April-May 1640)
• Second Bishops War

  1640; Scotland take Northumberland and Durham; ends with Treaty of Ripon
• Treaty of Ripon


  October 1640; Scots demanded £850/day to not much further south; leads to Long Parliament
• Long Parliament begins

  November 1640
• Book of Orders


  1631; reformed local government
• Thorough


  Centralisation and obedience (strict measures against opposition, e.g. Prerogative Courts)
• Case of Bastwick, Burton, and Prynne


  1637; fined £5000 and publicly mutilated; crowds spread flowers