Declares landowner guilty of rebelling against monarch, attainded noble loses title, lands and heirs disinherited. Used against Yorkists after Battle of Bosworth.
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Tonnage and poundage
Right to raise revenue for the whole reign from imports and exports.
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Magnate
Member of higher ranks of nobility.
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Prerogative rights
Powers which monarch could exercise without consent of parliament.
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Privy Chamber
Comprising of close servants of monarch, direct access to monarch, able to influence more.
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Extraordinary revenue
Money raised by additional sources as one off payments, made up of parliamentary grants, loans, clerical taxes, bonds and recognisances.
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Bond
Fine for bad behaviour.
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Recognisance
Formal acknowledgements of debts or obligations owed to Crown.
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Feudal aid
Crown could impose tax on tenants for knighting of eldest son, marriage of eldest daughter or to ransom a lord.
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Wardship
Crown could gain profits from property held by a minor.
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Peerage
Group of persons who held one of the five ranks of aristocracy (duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron).
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Bourgeoisie
Middle class residents.
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Real wages
Value of income in relation to prices of goods on the market, instead of actual money recieved.
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Subsistence crisis
When harvest failure raises food prices to such an extent that significant numbers of the poor die from starvation.
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Pastoral farming
Farming involving the rearing of animals.
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Laity
Those who were neither priests nor members of a religious order.
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Subsidy
Grant issued by parliament to the sovereign for state needs.
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Amicable Grant
1525 - in theory, freely given gift from his subjects to king, but in reality it came from heavy taxation w/out parliament's approval.
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Engrossing
Joining together of two or more farms.
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Debasement
Reduction in silver content of coins. Usually increased inflation.
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Iconoclasm
Breaking of images.
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Sectaries
Members of protestant sects which rejected Church of England and royal supremacy.
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Regicide
Execution or murder of a monarch.
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Sea Beggars
Dutch pirates licensed by rebel leader William of Orange.
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Recusant
Those who refused to attend services of CofE.
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Puritanism
Belief amongst Protestants that CofE needed to be purged of any 'superstitious' (ie Catholic) practices.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Right to raise revenue for the whole reign from imports and exports.
Back
Tonnage and poundage
Card 3
Front
Member of higher ranks of nobility.
Back
Card 4
Front
Powers which monarch could exercise without consent of parliament.
Back
Card 5
Front
Comprising of close servants of monarch, direct access to monarch, able to influence more.
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