Government policy
- Created by: Ella
- Created on: 07-04-15 10:02
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- Maintenance Political Stability
- The Realm
- Population. 1500-2.3m
- 1600-4.1m
- 1500-1550 Inflation 200%
- 1550-1600- 400%
- Wages Static- 90% spent on food
- Poor harvests in 1549,1550, 1551
- War against France and Scotland £3.5m
- Population. 1500-2.3m
- Role of the Monarch
- Monarchs role increased after reformation- subjects no longer held loyalty Pope
- Hierachal nature reinforced Great Chain on Being
- Society Static- place in society fixed
- Whilst possible to raise up- more likely to fall
- Society Static- place in society fixed
- Office holders to swear oath of allegiance, oaths of supremacy and succession; proclamations that were read in church; propaganda and patronage
- Patronage
- Henry VII- Order of garter
- Monarchs- peerages, grants of monpolies
- Danger under Elizabeth as over rewarded the Cecil faction which prompted Essex to rebel
- The role of the Church
- Despite religious change their was continuity in support
- Church part of community- important in maintaining stability
- Bishops crown appointees and anointed monarchs
- Clerics used as advisors Fox under Henry VII and Henry VIII
- Roland Lee under Henry VIII later appointed Head of Council of Wales
- Church leaders supported the crown in times of unrest
- Stoke- Rebels excommunicated
- Blackheath rebels excommunicated
- Clergy encouraged to inform bishops in times of unrest
- Preaching helped reinforce obedience
- From 1530's Priests given the content of their sermons
- Made to preach about obedience 4x PA
- Thomas Cramner wrote homlies
- Preaching helped reinforce obedience
- In some cases used passive resistance.
- Lattimer against Henry and Cranmer against Mary
- Religious Policies
- religious policies part of unrest under Henry VIII and Edward
- Henry VIII- dissolution of smaller monasteries and attacks on saint pilgrimages and holy days
- Edward- dissolution chantries and prayer book
- Elizabethan Religious settlement
- Moderate approach Protestantism
- Most Catholics accepted oaths uniformity and supremacy
- Moderate approach Protestantism
- religious policies part of unrest under Henry VIII and Edward
- Economic Policies
- Innovative taxation cause of insatiability in the first half of the period
- After 1540- other ways used to raise money
- Debased coinage
- Borrowed from over seas
- Sold crown lands
- Elizabeth did not raise taxes in line with inflation
- Enclosure
- Enclosure commission caused many to take law into own hands as believed this would be the likely finding
- Cause of unemployment
- Food riots
- Limit export of grain
- Measures taken to prevent hoarding
- Book of orders that explained to JP's how to move grain to deprived areas
- Unemployment
- Regulation Cloth Industry
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- The Realm
- Increased through propaganda
- Henry VII- developed Tudor rose
- Henry VIII used paintings to show physical power
- Edward and Mary hard to do this as one a woman and the other a boy
- Elizabeth- toured much of southern and central England; paegents held- imgae of stability and use of paintings to show her wisdom (links to Aesta- goddess of beauty)
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