declared a landowner guilty of rebelling against a monarch
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Amicable Grant
ordered by Wolsey in 1525 to raise more money for war
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annates
revenue paid to Pope by a bishop or other cleric on his appointment, collected in England and sent to Rome; also know as the 'first fruits'
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anticlericalism
opposition to the Church's role in political and other non-religious matters
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bond
a legal document which bound an individual to another to perform an action or forfeit a specified sum of money if that failed
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Calvinism
ideas of Church doctrine and organisation put forward in Geneva by the French reformer John Calvin
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Chamber
the private areas of the Court; also a key department for the efficient collection of royal revenues
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chancery
the main court of equity in the kingdom
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chantries
chapels where Masses for the souls of the dead took place
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common rights
denotes the legal right to tenants to use common land, for example for keeping animals; the exact nature of these rights varied from place to place
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Erasmianism
the body of ideas associated with Erasmus and his followers
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extraordinary revenue
money raised by the king from additional sources as one-off payments when he faced an emergency or an unforeseeable expense of government; this could be made up of parliamentary grants, loans, clerical taxes
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feudal
the medieval system by which society was structured depending on relationships in which land was held in return for some form of service
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heresy
the denial of the validity of the key doctrines of the Church
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iconoclasm
the rejection or destruction of images associated with established values and practices
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Intercursus Magnus
the major commercial treaty between England and the Duchy of Burgundy which restored normal trading links between the two
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magnate
a member of the higher ranks of the nobility
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martial law
legal authority and political control exercised by military authority
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parliamentary sanction
an official confirmation or ratification of a law given by Parliament as the acclaimed body of the state
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praemunire
a parliamentary statue enacted in 1393 to prevent papal interference in the rights of the Crown to make appointments to Church office
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prerogative rights
describes those rights or powers which the monarch could exercise without requiring the consent of Parliament
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purgatory
the state in which the souls of the dead were purged of their sins before they could enter the kingdom of heaven
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recognisance
a formal acknowledgement of a debt or other obligation which could be enforced by means of financial penalty
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Submission of the clergy
the formal surrender of the Church's independent law-making function
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subsidy
historically, a grant issued by Parliament to the sovereign for state needs
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Supplication against the Ordinaries
a form of petition directed against alleged abuses of ordinary jurisdiction
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tonnage and poundage
the right to raise revenue for the whole reign from imports and exports
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Transubstantiation
the Christian belief that the substance of bread and wine was completely changed into substance of Christ's body and blood by a validly ordained priest during the consecration at Mass
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
ordered by Wolsey in 1525 to raise more money for war
Back
Amicable Grant
Card 3
Front
revenue paid to Pope by a bishop or other cleric on his appointment, collected in England and sent to Rome; also know as the 'first fruits'
Back
Card 4
Front
opposition to the Church's role in political and other non-religious matters
Back
Card 5
Front
a legal document which bound an individual to another to perform an action or forfeit a specified sum of money if that failed
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