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- Frontmatter
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- BOOK VI GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND WITHOUT THE PARLIAMENT. TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND
- CHAP. I Peace with France and Spain
- CHAP. II Share of England in the events of the Thirty Years' War, 1630—1636
- CHAP. III Monarchical tendencies of the Home Government
- CHAP. IV Conflicting tendencies of the Age, and within the Kingdom of Great Britain
- CHAP. V Origin and outbreak of Ecclesiastical Disturbances in Scotland
- CHAP. VI The Scottish Covenant
- CHAP. VII Attempts at an accommodation. Independent Assembly of the Church
- BOOK VII CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND AND THOSE IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE
- BOOK VIII THE LONG PARLIAMENT AND THE KING, DOWN TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR
- BOOK IX THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, 1642—1646
- BOOK X INDEPENDENTS AND PRESBYTERIANS. FATE OF THE KING
CHAP. III - Monarchical tendencies of the Home Government
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- BOOK VI GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND WITHOUT THE PARLIAMENT. TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND
- CHAP. I Peace with France and Spain
- CHAP. II Share of England in the events of the Thirty Years' War, 1630—1636
- CHAP. III Monarchical tendencies of the Home Government
- CHAP. IV Conflicting tendencies of the Age, and within the Kingdom of Great Britain
- CHAP. V Origin and outbreak of Ecclesiastical Disturbances in Scotland
- CHAP. VI The Scottish Covenant
- CHAP. VII Attempts at an accommodation. Independent Assembly of the Church
- BOOK VII CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND AND THOSE IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE
- BOOK VIII THE LONG PARLIAMENT AND THE KING, DOWN TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR
- BOOK IX THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, 1642—1646
- BOOK X INDEPENDENTS AND PRESBYTERIANS. FATE OF THE KING
Summary
Among the English ministers Lord Treasurer Weston, who at that time exercised the greatest influence upon foreign affairs, and had almost the sole direction of domestic matters, afforded a signal instance of successful activity. He had formerly taken office, when matters were almost desperate. The English were still at war with both the neighbouring powers; enormous demands were made for the support of the forces by land and sea. The former moreover were burdensome to the districts on which they were quartered: none of the civil officials had been paid for several years: the considerable burden of debt which James I had bequeathed to his successor (£1,200,000), was increased a third by the years spent in war; and as interest was paid at the rate of 8 per cent, for the earlier, and 12 per cent, for the later loan, it absorbed the greater portion of the revenue. But this latter, which was principally derived from customs, had been rendered precarious by the dispute about tonnage and poundage. Bales of woollen goods had been sent back from the ports to the manufacturing towns because the owners refused to pay the duty; and foreign merchants had abstained from having their wares landed because they expected unpleasant treatment from the population if they paid the customs. The trade of the country was at a standstill.
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- A History of EnglandPrincipally in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 31 - 58Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1875