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How many commoners were there in Henry VII's reign?
2 million
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Why was social contentment relatively high for Henry VII?
Real wages increased, and there were no subsistence crises.
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What type of farming dominated in the West under Henry VII?
Pastoral farming.
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What were the consequences of a growing demand for wool?
Enclosure and engrossing.
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What percentage of exports were cloth in Henry VII's reign??
90%.
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Which countries dominated metallurgy and shipbuilding under Henry VII, undermining English industries?
Metallurge = German, Spanish = shipbuilding.
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What were some prosperous cloth towns in England under Henry VII?
Lavenham and Lewes.
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Name some small scale industries under Henry VII.
weaving, brewing and mining tin and coal.
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Why were the Merchant Adventurers unable to compete with the Hanseatic League?
Henry put dynastic interests first, making treaties in 1474 and 1504.
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Why was the economy doing alright under Henry VII?
Steady wages and prices.
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How many troops did the Earl of Shrewesbury raise for the 1513 French invasion?
4000.
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Name 3 nobles that were executed by Henry VIII.
Lords Darcy and Hurrey, the Earl of Exeter, Margaret Pole, the Marquisse of Salisbury, the Duke of Buckingham.
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What happened to the gentry class under Henry VIII?
Increased to 5000 families.
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What triggered the re-establishment of the Council of the North under Henry VIII?
The Pilgrimage of Grace.
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Where were the Palatinates?
Lancashire, Cheshire and Durham.
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What was imported more during Henry VIII's reign?
Wine.
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Name evidence that social mobility increased un Henry VIII's reign. due to the cloth industry.
William Stumpe, MP for Malmesbury.
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How much did export in cloth rise under Henry VIII?
Doubled.
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What areas benefitted from the growth of the cloth industry under Henry VIII?
East Anglia, West Country, and the West Riding of Yorkshire.
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What benefitted the economy under Henry VIII?
increase in farming incomes due to engrossing and the short term boom caused by debasement.
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What negatively impacted the economy under Henry VIII?
Bad harvests 1527-29 and 20-21, bigger population, decline in real wages, debasement, urban poverty
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Name four negative impacts to the economy under Somerset's Protectorate.
Inflation, taxation for war, sheep tax, enclosure.
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What did Northumberland do to try to help the economy?
Brought an end to war, the French pension, and slowing debasement.
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What impact did the dissolusion of the monasteries have on the poor?
The loss of charitable functions, and less money left to the church for fear of its confiscation.
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What happened to the cloth industry in the Mid-Tudor crisis period?
Declined.
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What was the name of the plan for boosting the economy that Mary couldn't implement before her death?
Book of Rates, 1558.
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What happened between 1555-8 that had a devastating impact on the economy? (two)
Harvest failures and outbreak of sweating sickness.
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What is proof that there were some people of humbler status that followed Protestantism enthusiastically under Mary?
They were the bulk of the victims in Mary's burnings.
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How many people were under 25 in Elizabethan society?
54%.
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Name evidence that Elizabeth made distinctions between the deserving and undeserving poor.
Act for the Punishment of Rogues, 1598
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Name evidence that Elizabeth tried to create stability in wages.
Statute of Artificers, 1563.
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When were the two Acts for the Relief of the Poor?
1576, 1598.
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Why was there a Rising in the 1590s?
Harvest failures and rising prices.
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Name two building projects by wealthy nobles.
Burghley and Wilton in Wiltshire.
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Name evidence that more luxury goods were imported in Elizabethan times.
Westmorland man's inventory: French garters and Spanish silk.
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What were alternative trade routes to Antwerp found? (two)
German port of Emden, Amsterdam.
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Who benefited most during Elizabeth's reign?
Wealthy landowners, as landed incomes rose, and farmers.
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What happened to real wages in Elizabeth's reign?
They fell.
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How much of cloth exports went through London in Elizabeth's reign?
93%
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Why did the nobility invest in London more?
It was the political and cultural centre of England.
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Which ports flourished as well as London?
Bristol and Exeter.
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Which towns prove the decline caused by London wasn't irreversible?
Worchester and Norwich.
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