HIST 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Recusancy, Ernst Von Mansfeld, Ship Money
7 Apr 2016
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Charles i: charles i was king of england, scotland and ireland, whose conlicts with parliament led to civil war and his eventual execuion. He was paricularly interested in maters of foreign policy, owing to his concern for his sister and her husband. Henrieta maria: charles" wife, had six children with him. Negoiaions then opened between louis xiii and james before the king"s death over the marriage of. Tonnage and poundage: it was tradiional for parliament to grant the monarch the right to collect customs duies during the irst parliament of the reign. The bill that would have allowed him to collect tonnage and poundage for that year did not pass before dissoluion of the parliament, and this let charles to collect the tax without any formalizaion of the process. He collected tonnage and poundage, all along believing that it was his right and that parliament would understand.
