1627 - 1628

1627 - 1628

1. 1627

   • Forced Loan
     • Those who would have normally paid parliamentary subsidies were pressured to "lend " money
     • Few dared disobey
       • A few refused and arrested
       • Lord Chief Justice Crew refused to state it was legal and was dismissed
   • Landing at the Ile de Re
   • Sibthropes defence of FL
   • Billeting and Martial Law
   • Five Knights' Case
     • Imprisoned for refusing to pay FL
     • Tested the legaltiy of their imprisonment by Habeas Corpus
     • Sir Robert Heath - should be able to lock people up without trial
     • Although 5 knights released in 1628, but raised fears of an absolutist monarch