Parliament (Organisation, Henry VII, Early Henry VIII)
Pages 20-21 of Tudor Rebellions Book
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- Parliament
- Organisation
- Two chambers
- Unelected House of Lords
- Hereditary peers and bishops
- Elected House of Commons
- MPs (two for each county, some towns even sent MPs to parliament)
- Voting
- Own property with an income of 40 shillings (£2) per year
- Only wealthy could vote
- Own property with an income of 40 shillings (£2) per year
- MPs went uncontested
- Nobility exercise patronage --> ensure their MPs win
- EXP: Norfolk influenced eight boroughs
- Interests of landed gentry and nobles
- To pass an act, it had to go through both chambers, then the monarch
- Unelected House of Lords
- Voting
- Own property with an income of 40 shillings (£2) per year
- Only wealthy could vote
- Own property with an income of 40 shillings (£2) per year
- Problems arose due to taxation, finance, royal succession and religion
- Two chambers
- Henry VII
- Forced to call periodically mainly to allow taxes to finance war
- Cautious foreign policy
- Called Parliament 7 times in 24 years
- Sat for a total of only 72 weeks
- Last called parliament in 1504
- Had to take a smaller sum of money
- Commons were reluctant to grant the sum
- Due to allowance to exercise new right to withhold taxation until grievances were settled
- Commons were reluctant to grant the sum
- Had to take a smaller sum of money
- Called Parliament 7 times in 24 years
- Called first parliament to enhance claim to throne
- Parliament passed Acts of Attainder (guilty without a trial)
- Henry VIII (1509-23)
- Legal status to Tudor succession
- Before break with Rome
- No need to call often
- Met 4 times
- No need to call often
- Used to fund wars to prove himself on international stage
- Against France and Scotland
- By 1517, parliament is less keen to give money due to losses
- Also partly due to fear of rebellion for the nobility if taxes increased
- EXP: Wolsey faced resistance. £288,814 raised in taxes, but loans totalled £260,000
- 1523
- 1529 = BREAK WITH ROME OCCURRED EVERYTHING WENT DOWNHILL FROM HERE BOYS
- Organisation
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