Supporters vs Opposition

SUPPORTERS

MONARCH

OPPOSITION

Richard Bancroft

. Archbishop of Canterbury 1604-11

. King James Bible - 1611

Robert Cecil

. The Great Contract - 1610

Richard Montagu

. Arminian

. ‘A New Gagg for an Old Goose’ – 1624

Lionel Cranfield

. Lord High Treasurer – 1624

Robert Carr

. Scottish favourite 1603-14

. Overbury Scandal – 1611

George Villiers

. Favourite 1614-25

. Duke of Buckingham

. Spanish Match – 1624

. Impeached Francis Bacon

James I

Edward Coke

. Anti-30YW

. Anti-Buckingham

. Anti-excessive expenditure

John Pym

. Anti-30YW

. Anti-Buckingham

George Villers

. Favourite 1625-28

. Cadiz Expedition – 1625

. La Rochelle – 1627

. Assassination – 1628

Richard Montagu

. Arminian

. Royal Chaplain – 1625

. Bishop of Chichester – 1628

William Laud

. Bishop of London – 1628

. Prerogative Courts – 1629-40

. Book of Orders – 1631

. Archbishop of Canterbury – 1633

. Book of Sports – 1633

. Burton Bastwick and Prynne – 1637

. Impeached – 1640  

Thomas Wentworth

. Lord Deputy in Ireland/Thorough – 1632

. Earl of Strafford – 1640

. Execution – 1641

John Finch

. Ship Money – 1634

. Prosecution of dissenters, e.g. Hampden Case 1637

. Impeached by Long Parliament - 1640

Prince Rupert

. Charles’ nephew

. Royalist general - 1642-49

. Battle of Edgehill - 1642

. Battle of Marston Moor - 1644

. Battle of Naseby - 1645

Charles I

George Abbot

. Archbishop of Canterbury 1611-33

Edward Coke

. Petition of Right – 1628

John Eliot

. Tonnage and Poundage – 1625  

. Attacked Buckingham

. Anti-Arminianism

. Commons Protestation – 1629

Denzil Holles

. Commons Protestation – 1629

. Five Members Case – 1642

William Strode

. Commons Protestation – 1629

.  Five Members Case – 1642

John Finch

. Commons Protestation – 1629

. Defected to Royalist side

John Hampden

. Hampden Case – 1637

. Five Members Case – 1642

John Pym

. Led Long Parliament

. Abolished Ship Money and Prerogative Courts – 1641

. Impeached Strafford and Laud – 1640  

. Five Members – 1642

. Solemn League and Covenant – 1643

Arthur Haselrig

. Five Members – 1642

. NMA – 1645, Naseby

. Regicide – 1649

Thomas Fairfax

. NMA

. Self-Denying Ordinance - 1644

Henry Ireton

. Heads of the Proposals - 1647

. Regicide - 1649

Oliver Cromwell

. Marston Moor – 1644

. Self-Denying Ordinance - 1644

. NMA – 1645

. Naseby – 1645

. Regicide - 1649

Thomas Harrison

. Marston Moor - 1644

. NMA - 1645

. Naseby - 1645

. Regicide - 1649

Richard Cromwell

. Successor – 1658-59

. No connection to NMA

. Resigns after 3 months

Thomas Harrison

. Fifth Monarchist

George Monck

. General in Scotland

. Restoration Settlement

John Lambert

. Instrument of Government – 1653

. Anti-Humble Petition and Advice – 1657

. Reinstated Rump Parliament – 1659

. Control of NMA – 1659

Cromwell

Henry Vane the Younger

. Republican

. Rump Parliament

John Lilburne

. Leveller

George Monck

. Restoration Settlement - 1660

Edward Hyde/Earl of Clarendon

. Restoration Settlement - 1660

. Clarendon Code - 1661-65

. Second Anglo-Dutch War - 1665-67

Cabal: 1667-74

-          Arlington

   . Catholic sympathiser

-          Clifford

   . Crypto-Catholic

-          Buckingham

   . Religiously tolerant

-          Shaftesbury

   . Religiously tolerant  

-          Lauderdale

   . Scottish Presbyterian

. Third Anglo-Dutch War 1672-74

. Treaty of Dover - 1670

. Declaration of Indulgence - 1672

Danby

. William and Mary – 1677

. Court v Country factions

. Test Bill – 1675

. Popish Plot – 1678

. Dismissed – 1679

James, Duke of York / James II

. Test Act – 1673

. Exclusion Crisis – 1679-81

Tories

Louis XIV

. French, Catholic, absolutist cousin to Charles

. Sale of Dunkirk - 1662

. Treaty of Dover - 1670

. Third Anglo-Dutch War - 1672-74

. Exclusion Crisis - 1679-81

Charles II

Whigs:

-          Shaftesbury

. Popish Plot

. Exclusion Crisis

. Rye House Plot - 1683

George Jeffreys

. Monmouth Rising - 1685

. Bloody Assizes - 1685

Earl of Sunderland

. pro-French

Louis XIV

James II

Earl of Argyll

. Argyll’s Rising – 1685

James Scott, Duke of Monmouth

. Exclusion Crisis - 1679-81

. Monmouth’s Rebellion – 1685

. Battle of Sedgemoor – 1685

. Executed – 1685

William Sancroft

. Archbishop of Canterbury

. Act of Indulgence petition/Seven Bishops - 1688

Lord Stair

William and Mary

James II

Louis XIV

Duke of Gordon

Viscount Dundee

Earl of Tyrconnell