Fresh Light on Bate's Case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8955685 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pauline Croft (0000-0003-4914-5908, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 523-539 |
| Publication date | 1987-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x00020872 |
| OpenAlex | W2032416819 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 17 |
On the afternoon of 7 July 1610, two petitions of grievance, one temporal and one spiritual, were presented to James I. According to the French ambassador, he received them with ‘un assez mauvais visage’ and uncharacteristically few words, although later the king permitted himself the tart comment that the petition of temporal grievances was long enough to be his chamber tapestry. Although James exaggerated its size, politically it was a weighty document, for among its complaints it set out the Commons' view that the new impositions, already bringing in around £70,000 per annum, were illegal. ‘With all humility’, they presented ‘this most just and necessary petition unto your Majesty, that all impositions set without assent of parliament may be quite abolished and taken away.’ To answer the grievance, on 10 July James turned to his lord treasurer, Robert Cecil earl of Salisbury, for a full statement. The speech which he then gave formed the basis for all future defences of the royal power to impose on trade made by crown spokesmen up to 1640. Salisbury described how, early in 1607, his friend and predecessor, Lord Treasurer Dorset, had proposed new impositions to help fill the empty royal coffers. The privy council, after discussion, decided instead to raise money on loan; but in October 1607 renewed rebellion in Ireland rendered the situation more urgent, and by spring 1608 it was apparent that loans could not meet the king's necessities
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James Vi and I
The Early History of the Levant Company
The Travels of John Sanderson in the Levant, 1584–1602
A History of the Levant Company
Sir Julius Caesar's Journal of Salisbury's First Two Months and Twenty Days as Lord Treasurer
The Parliamentary Diary of Robert Bowyer, 1606-1607
Elizabethan Privateering
Deficit Finance in the Reign of James I
Free Trade and the House of Commons, 1605-6
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2017 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |