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HISTORY
Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702
Component 1D Absolutism challenged: Britain, 1603–1649
Wednesday 15 May 2024 Afternoon Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
• an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
• Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7041/1D.
• Answer two questions.
In Section A answer Question 01.
In Section B answer either Question 02 or Question 03.
Information
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• The maximum mark for this paper is 50.
• You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
• You are advised to spend about:
– 50 minutes on Section A
– 40 minutes on Section B.
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Section A
Answer Question 01.
Extract A
James I’s extravagance was the main reason for the Crown’s financial weaknesses. In the
first five years of his reign James’ expenditure on clothes increased significantly. Some
increase in the giving of gifts by a new monarch was inevitable but the scale of James’
gifts and pensions was excessive. The Crown debt had risen to £597 000 by 1608, when
Cecil succeeded in extracting a public promise from James to end his gifts of land. He 5
also got James to promise not to sell any Crown land without the Privy Council’s
permission. James failed to keep to these promises. After the failure of Cecil’s
Great Contract, James listened to anyone who had a scheme to raise non-parliamentary
revenue.
Adapted from B Coward, The Stuart Age, 1980
Extract B
The problems relating to Crown finances under James I were serious, but not all his fault.
The Crown’s income, especially that from feudal rights, was unpopular with the
Political Nation. Yet James was far from willing to consider some alternative arrangement
to these methods. The main problem was that inflation had caused the Crown’s income to
decline by 40% and James had inherited a royal debt from Elizabeth I. The Crown 5
therefore needed adequate financial compensation if James were to surrender particularly
profitable sources of feudal income. This was all the more necessary because James’
family made his household more expensive than that of Elizabeth I.
Adapted from DL Smith, A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603–1707, 1998
0 1 With reference to these extracts and your understanding of the historical context, which
of these two extracts provides the more convincing interpretation of the financial
weaknesses of the Crown in the reign of James I?
[25 marks]
IB/M/Jun24/7041/1D
AS
HISTORY
Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy, 1603–1702
Component 1D Absolutism challenged: Britain, 1603–1649
Wednesday 15 May 2024 Afternoon Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
• an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
• Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7041/1D.
• Answer two questions.
In Section A answer Question 01.
In Section B answer either Question 02 or Question 03.
Information
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• The maximum mark for this paper is 50.
• You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
• You are advised to spend about:
– 50 minutes on Section A
– 40 minutes on Section B.
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Section A
Answer Question 01.
Extract A
James I’s extravagance was the main reason for the Crown’s financial weaknesses. In the
first five years of his reign James’ expenditure on clothes increased significantly. Some
increase in the giving of gifts by a new monarch was inevitable but the scale of James’
gifts and pensions was excessive. The Crown debt had risen to £597 000 by 1608, when
Cecil succeeded in extracting a public promise from James to end his gifts of land. He 5
also got James to promise not to sell any Crown land without the Privy Council’s
permission. James failed to keep to these promises. After the failure of Cecil’s
Great Contract, James listened to anyone who had a scheme to raise non-parliamentary
revenue.
Adapted from B Coward, The Stuart Age, 1980
Extract B
The problems relating to Crown finances under James I were serious, but not all his fault.
The Crown’s income, especially that from feudal rights, was unpopular with the
Political Nation. Yet James was far from willing to consider some alternative arrangement
to these methods. The main problem was that inflation had caused the Crown’s income to
decline by 40% and James had inherited a royal debt from Elizabeth I. The Crown 5
therefore needed adequate financial compensation if James were to surrender particularly
profitable sources of feudal income. This was all the more necessary because James’
family made his household more expensive than that of Elizabeth I.
Adapted from DL Smith, A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603–1707, 1998
0 1 With reference to these extracts and your understanding of the historical context, which
of these two extracts provides the more convincing interpretation of the financial
weaknesses of the Crown in the reign of James I?
[25 marks]
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