Society and Rebellions P.1

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  • Society and Rebellions
    • Elites and Commoners
      • Age of gentry
      • Wolsey and Cromwell sought to 'swear in' the gentry
      • Gentry relied on King for land
      • Selling of monastic land
        • Men could buy land for first time or expand current amount
      • Act for Continuing Certain Liberties and Franchises (1536)
        • ecclesiastical / feudal officials couldn't interfere w/ JPs and sherrifs
          • Power balance at county level remained with landowners who served as JPs and sherrifs
      • 1531/32: acts to fix price of certain food
      • 1533: act to create machinery for determining fair food prices
        • Largely impossible to enforce and repealed in 1542
    • Vagabonds
      • Cromwell created first Tudor Poor Law in 1531
        • Distributed food from own house
        • Estimated 200 people per day
      • Distinction between those unable to work and those 'unwilling'
        • Licenses for begging
      • No provisions made for those unable to work
      • Each district = 2 people for overseeing the poor
      • The 1531 Vagabonds Act strengthened in 1536:  legal obligation for parishioners to care for the poor
      • All measures came from Cromwell who aimed to minimise social disruption
    • Social impact of religious upheaval
      • Most people solely concerned with religious houses and local parish churches
      • Due to concerns, progress of the Reformation varied depending on where you went
      • Acceptance of Protestant ideology because of preachers

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