Wolsey’s domestic policy
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- Wolsey’s Domestic Policy
- Justice
- Introduced legal reform
- The Court of the Star Chamber
- Increased number of cases
- Used his position as Lord Chancellor to humiliate or persecute members of the nobility
- Promoted civil over common law
- Enclosure - The land being sectioned off
- Launched national enquiry into enclosure
- Ordered rebuilding of houses and returning of land to arable farming
- Increased his unpopularity with nobility
- Forced to accept all existing enclosures in order to make sure parliament kept giving money for wars as it was full of landowners
- Finances
- Replaced fifteenths &tenths with subsidy
- Commissioners supervised levying of tax
- Graduated tax for the very rich
- Still demanded extra taxes & loans from parliament
- Force to accept less from parliament then expected
- Resentment among ruling classes
- Amicable Grant 1525
- Tax targeted on clergy & laity
- Rebellions in Suffolk & East Anglia
- Public failure for Wolsey
- Beginning of the end
- Changed foreign policy, which would cause future problems
- Henry VIII changed allegiance from Charles V to Francis I
- Justice
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