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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 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

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