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
- ecclesiastical / feudal officials couldn't interfere w/ 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- Largely impossible to enforce and repealed in 1542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
- Cromwell created first Tudor Poor Law in 1531
- 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
- Elites and Commoners
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