Wolsey's reforms
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- WOLSEY REFORMS
- FINANCIAL
- Tudor Subsidy
- Tried to get a picture of wealth
- Replacedsystem of fifteenths and tenths
- Raised about £300,000
- Campaigned against enclosure
- 1526 Eltham Ordinances
- Reform finances of the Privy Council
- Reduction of gentlemen in the Privy Council 12 to 6
- Removedgroom of the stool
- Arguably Wolsey's way of increasing his own power and influence
- Small print that councillors could cary out dates elsewhere
- Less chaotic
- Less likely to need to go to Parliament
- 1525 Act of Resumption
- Restored some land lost from the Wars of the Roses
- Henry VIII spent 1.7 million on war up to 1529
- Tudor Subsidy
- NOBILITY/ SOCIAL
- Called Parliament 1523 to pay for war with France
- 1516 Law of Star Chamber meant that noblemen and gentlemen not above the law
- 1515 Anti-Enclosure Legisaltion
- CHURCH
- Wolsey was seen to embody corruption in the church
- Pluralist and absentee
- 1515 became Cardinal (pressured Pope though)
- 1519 visited over 60 religious homes and reform
- Planned to fund grammar schools
- But only one and in his hometown
- Wolsey was seen to embody corruption in the church
- LEGAL
- Court of Chancery
- cheap, fair justice, eg enclosure
- Often reviewed cases himself
- Selfish motives?
- Court of the Star Chamber
- Set up 1487
- Cases of misconduct, private lawsuits
- Court of Chancery
- FINANCIAL
- LEGAL
- Court of Chancery
- cheap, fair justice, eg enclosure
- Often reviewed cases himself
- Selfish motives?
- Court of the Star Chamber
- Set up 1487
- Cases of misconduct, private lawsuits
- Court of Chancery
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