Henry VII
- Created by: Rachel Gilpin
- Created on: 12-04-17 15:19
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- Henry VII
- Background info.
- 3 mil peeps in England
- 60,000 in London
- 1,000 in Lewes
- Became important for trade and local gov.
- 90% farmers
- anti enclosure law of 1489
- enforced cos enclosing had become common during WOR
- 80% exports = cloth
- Merchant adventures
- Journeymen
- 3 mil peeps in England
- Nobels and Church
- Needed to rely on nobels to prevent rebellions + keep local peace
- Nobels kept huge households = big threat if aggravated
- Duke of Northumberland had 187 members
- Nobels kept huge households = big threat if aggravated
- Work close with church cos v. powerful (1/3 of land) + good ally against rebellion
- Also Pope had 'supreme authority'
- Church power came from people
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- Many couldn't read
- Ckergy valued as educated
- Some corrupt
- Expected of people to submit to church
- Performed 7 sacrements
- Marriage
- Baptism
- Confession
- Images to convey messages
- Needed to rely on nobels to prevent rebellions + keep local peace
- Renaissance
- Increased emphasis on educated
- 100+ endowed schools made
- Humanist ideas
- Printing press of 1476 helped distribute ideas
- Increased emphasis on educated
- Beginning of reign
- Accepted as Richard hated - blamed for princes in tower - and peeps wanted ed to WOR
- Crown fast + had son fast
- Objectives = secure dynasty, strengthen England = monarchy + gov., better control of nobility
- Married Elizabeth 18th Feb. 1486
- Needed to secure yorkist support + show wanted peace by uniting 2 warring houses
- Arthur born Sep. 1486
- Crowned before marrying or calling parliament so could claim to have seized power without help of Elizabeth of Parliament
- Royal progress of 1486 - to prove was king + inspire loyalty
- Locked earl of Warwick in tower as threat
- Married Elizabeth 18th Feb. 1486
- Accepted as Richard hated - blamed for princes in tower - and peeps wanted ed to WOR
- Methods of control
- 138 attainders passed
- 46 reversed
- 51 passed after 1504
- Used to enforced loyalty of nobility
- Used to raise money for crown
- Lord Bergavenny fined £70,000 for illegally retaining 471 men
- Justics of eace
- Implemented law in local area
- Volunteers
- Royal council = kings advisors
- parliment met only 7 times
- Henry got £ from feudal dues, crown lands,customs duties, bonds etc,
- 138 attainders passed
- Background info.
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