Study guide

Rev. 9 January 2004

Evolution of Parliament

feudal rights and services
Henry I's Charter of Liberties
Magna Carta
Provisions of Oxford
Simon de Montfort
Model Parliament
Edward I's concession of 1297
Ordinances of 1311
emergence of two distinct bodies within Parliament
peerage
Commons' petition

Religious background

anticlericalism
Wyclif's political theories and attack on the church
translation of the Bible
Lollards
Christian humanism
infiltration of Lutheranism into England

Break with Rome

Catharine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Act of Supremacy (1534)
Thomas Cranmer
dissolution of the monasteries

Elizabeth I and the Church of England

Two type-written pages, taken primarily from Roger Lockyer. Tudor and Stuart Britain 1471-1714. 2nd ed. Longman, 1985. Chapter 8: "Elizabeth I and the Church of England"; 146-167.

Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity (1559)
Marian exiles
Marian bishops
Matthew Parker and the Vestiarian (or Vestments) Controversy (including Book of Advertisements)
Thomas Cartwright and Walter Travers
Thomas Wilcox and John Field
Edmund Grindal and "Prophesyings"
Separatists or Independents
Marprelate Letters
John Whitgift

Other material

material from pages on post-plague economics, including vagrancy
Sir Thomas More and Utopia (discussion class)
Spanish Armada (discussion class)
material on witchcraft (discussion class)
material on "Scientific Revolution"

Early parliaments of Charles I

Michael A. R. Graves and Robin H. Silcock. Revolution, reaction and the triumph of conservatism: English history, 1558-1700. Auckland, New Zealand: Longman Paul, 1984. "The early parliaments of Charles I, 1625-1629"; 376-385.

tunnage and poundage (and plague) 377-8, 383, 384, 385
members of the House of Commons concerned about their constituents in their "countries" 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 384, 385
war 376, 377, 379, 380, 385
Arminianism 376, 378, 383, 384, 385
forced loan 376, 380
imprisonment of those who refused to pay loan 376, 380-381
billeting 376, 381
Petition of Right 376, 381-3
three resolutions 376, 385 (see also 284)
Henrietta Maria 377, 379
Richard Montague 378
Buckingham, duke of (Villiers, George) 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 382, 383, 384
rule of law/subject's liberties 376, 381, 382, 383, 385
Eliot, John 385
Pym, John 385
Coke, Edward 382-3
Rolle, John 384-5
Remonstrance of House of Commons 383, 384

Arminianism

Graves and Silcock; 277-95

Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury (1583-1604) 277, 279
Bancroft, Richard, Archbishop of Canterbury (1604-10) 279, 280, 285
Abbot, George Archbishop of Canterbury (1611-33) 279, 280, 281
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45)
~ and Arminianism 279,282-3, 286-7, 293
~ and episcopacy 286, 292-4
~ and discipline 286-9 (i.e. Laudianism perceived as Catholicism)
~ and Catholics 290-2, 295
~ and Canons of 1640 293-4
~ and fear of 290-2
~ and as leader of what many historians now believe was a revolutionary movement in the Anglican Church (especially Tyacke, see pp. 277-8) 285

Arminianism rise of 277, 280-2; theology 277-8, 281-3, 292; divine right 283, 292-3; fear of 283-4, 290-3; office of bishop 283, 292-3; and parliament 293-4
Puritanism (revival of) 277, 278, 295
predestination 277-8
Court of High Commission 289, 294
Elect Nation 291
John Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" 290 (Acts and Monuments)

Coming of the Civil War

Typed pages on Long Parliament

rebellion against Charles I in Scotland
John Pym
Triennial Act of 1641
Act against Dissolution
Ten Propositions
Root and Branch
Exclusion Bill
Irish Rebellion
Grand Remonstrance
Militia Ordinance
"Anglican Party"

Fears, wherever mentioned