How did Henry VII Limit the Power of the Nobility?
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- Created on: 16-02-17 14:33
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- How did Henry VII Limit the Power of the Nobility?
- Attainders
- Make money
- Used attainders to seize the title and possessions of nobles he suspected disloyalty.
- Special laws passed by parliament
- Allowed someone to be declared guilty of treason- no trial
- Against men who fought for Richard III
- Could be reversed (restore lands or titles to secure gratitude and future loyalty)
- 138 passed, 46 reversed
- 5 years at the end- paranoid, 51 passed
- Patronage
- Patron- Financially helped (rewarding loyalty)
- Special favours e.g. land or titles
- Henry abandoned these (shrunk by 25%)
- Didn't want to create a new group of nobles who could rise and become a threat
- Number of nobles fell by about one quarter
- Henry was the largest land owner in the country
- Nobles dependent on him for position and status
- Let families die out
- Financial controls
- Would demand a financial bond from nobles or their families
- Placed a noble in debt to the crown
- Nobles had to agree to behave themselves
- Two-thirds of the nobility under bonds
- Was a way of raising money from someone he did not trust and to stop nobles from trying to corrupt power
- Council Learned in Law was a royal debt collector
- Retaining Laws
- The practice by which a noble man kept a large number of men as his personal staff (servants) (in theory they were an army)
- Used to put pressure on tenants who were slow at paying rent or on juries so that they could get the verdict they wanted
- New laws in 1485 and 1504 made retaining illegal without a licence
- In 1485 nobles had to swear they would not retain illegally.
- In 1504 they had to obtain a special licence or would face fines (£5 per retainer)
- Nobles found ways to avoid getting a licence
- Corrupt (covered up records)
- Attainders
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