Henry VIII's Domestic Policies

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Henry VIII's Domestic Policies

Causes

  • Court of Star Chamber
  • Court of Chancery
  • Court of Requests
  • Subsidy Act 1512
  • Eltham Ordinances 1526
  • The Amicable Grant
  • Parliament to secure an annulment
  • Religious Reformation
  • Submission of the clergy
  • Pilgrimage of Grace
  • The Ten Articles
  • The Act of Six Articles
  • The Treason Act/ Oath of Supremacy
  • The succession

Effects

  • Made sure that people were brought to justice and held accountable for their actions, despite their social status. Held landowners accountable for enclosure and other issues such as rioting, assault, fraud and corruption.
  • Dealt with inheritance and will issues as well as lands, trusts, debt, marriage settlements and apprenticeships.
  • Provided easy access for the poor to royal justice.
  • Devised a more efficient tax that replaced the fifteenths and tenths and was more similar to the modern day system.
  • Reduced the cost of running the royal household and eliminated people close to Henry for Wolsey's advantage.
  • Raised alot of money for Henry but was unpopular with the public.
  • Cromwell got Parliament to create legislation that made Henry the head of the Church of England, allowing him to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon and to marry Anne Boleyn.
  • The Church of England saw the Catholic monasteries and buildings destroyed and robbed of wealth. Henry enforced Protestantism CoE to demonstrate his power as head of the Church of England and to secure his power in England over the Pope.
  • The clergy had to surrender its right to make religious law without the king, promise not to issue new laws being drafted without royal licence and agreed to submit existing laws to a royally appointed committee for revision.
  • Caused by resentment over the changes in the Church and the dissolution of the monasteries.
  • A step away from Catholicism as the seven sacraments were rejected.
  • A step back towards Catholicism. Transubstantiation was reintroduced, clerical celibacy was enforced, private masses were allowed and confession was reintroduced.
  • People were forbidden to speak or write against the king and his new queen and had to swear oaths accepting the changes.
  • Henry needed to secure an heir for his throne, ideally a male. This explains why he wanted to marry Anne Boleyn. He achieved this with Jane Seymour when she birthed Edward.

Overall summary

Henry mainly had successful domestic policies and used them to enforce his power and control. 

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