Elizabeth

• Wardrobe went from £9,000 to £36,000
• James spent increasing amounts on his favourites
• Gave away £60,000 to £80,000 to Scots which upset the English ( Xenophobia)

• Concerned with voting subsidies
• Conerns with custom duties, purveyance and Wardships
• Discontent over finance

• Addled Parliament
• Parliament attached James and his favourites as well as not voting any money
• James dissolved them
• Ruled without Parliament until 1621
• Bad relationship

• Higlighted how James thought he didnt need Parliament
• Needed in desperate measures
• Held in hard times
• Economic depresssion caused by '30 Years War' and fall in exports, bad harvests and a rise in support for anti-spanish policy

• Shows Elizabeth dealing with problems
• Vagrancy - Houses of correction set up, vagrants whipped and returned to parished of birth
• Poor Law - Set up apprenticeships to train young boys and girls
• Appointed overseers of the poor and provide relief to those who can't work

• Financial Struggles
• Food prices rose by 35% which led to famine
• Solution: - Statutes regarding the export of corn

                    - Farmer only export when there is a surplus

• 1595 Tyrone has an army of 1000 cavlry, 1000 pikemen, 4000 muskateers
• Tyrone asks King Phillip for help
• Tyrone attacks and damaged Englands forces - declared traitor
• 1596-97 2000 men to Ireland - outnumbered by Tyrone and only signed truces
• 1599 Essex led 16,000 men to Ireland, outnumbering Tyrone, signed a Truce
• 1600 Lord Mountjoy  appointed Lord General
• 1601 4,400 men from Spain, Lord Mountjoy still defeated them all
• Tyrone surrenders

• Elizabeth's Authority ( set an example for others)
• He was becoming increasingly frustrated
• Essex led an uprising of 300 men to capture Elizabeth which failed, he was then arrested and executed

• Showed Elizabeth couldn't deal with it well first time
• Chose not to ignore
• A bill was introduced to look at legality of monopolies
• House refused to think about subsidies until monopolies problem was resolved
• Some monopolies were revoked ( salt and vinegar)

• Spain set out to invade England but are unsuccessful
• Also sent two more unsuccessful armadas in 1597/8
• Highlighted Elizabeths and Englands strength and her leadership skills

• Elizabeths authority and control highlighted
• Not a serious threat
• Resistance due to rising prices
• Led by 3 men, only 4 men turned up and a dog
• Arrested and ordered to be executed

• Parliament didnt like Scots (Xenophobia)
• House of Commons against the union
• Thought that scots would take advantage
• Blocked in 1607

• James bad at appointing effective treasurers
• Did not help James' spending
• Incompetant and dishonest
• 1616 deficit = £160,000

• James was greedy
• HIghlighted that James and Parliament had a bad relationship
• Parliament asked for James to give up all royal perogatives everyone hated and wardship for a large sum of money per year (£200,000)
• James demanded double but parliament refused
• James dismissed them

• Courtiers were scandalous
• Carr had an affair with Lady Essex
• Lady Essex wanted an annulment but Overbury was against it
• Overbury sent to Tower of London
• Sent Overbury pie with poison and both Carr and Lady Essex were charged with murder

• James wasn't trusted
• Cockayne wanted to stop exporting half finished cloth and export finished cloth instead
• James took away monopoly from current holders and gave it to Cockayne
• Not enough money, skill or expertise
• 1618 cloth trade collapsed

• Threat from Catholics
• An attempt to blow up Houses of Parliament

• James wreckless with money they needed a book
• Used to limit James' spending/expenditure
• New 'Book of Rates' brought in an extra £70,000 a year

• Financial state of the economy was low
• Led to increased mortality rates and poverty
• 1595 food riots
• SOLUTION: Statute against the conversions to pasture and statue against engrossing farms

• Confirmed privilege
• Arrested for debt and sent to prison
• Parliament claimed to have freedom from arrest

• Elizabeth is not dealing with financial problems well at all
• She needs money as she is resorting to monopolies
• Increasingly relied on monopolies to fund Spanish War
• Monopolies incresaed in number and on what they can be used on
• Monopolies increased amount of products/commodities
• Elizabeth promised to deal with the problem but ignored it instead

• Useless
• 1603-05 He was useless
• Debt stood at £750,000 by 1606