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Who are key nobles during the period?
R. Duke of York, Warwick, Ed Earl of March, RIII, Clarence, Stanley, Bolingbroke, Henry Tudor, De La Pole bros and John of Gaunt
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Who are the good nobles>
John Duke of Bedford, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Shrewbury, Lord Hastings, Jasper Tudor and Earl of Oxford
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What are feudal dues?
One off payments that the Kings got when their subjects had a change of circumstance in their life
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What is the 'right to the wardship of all idiots'?
The King got all the land of someone with a mental disability, minus their living expenses
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What percentage were feudal dues of the King's total income?
Around 5%
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What are custom duties?
Wool trade was the biggest export- a fee for each sack of wool. Wool trade declined by 60%
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What are profits of Justice?
Any criminal act which resulted in a fine would go to the King
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What are problems with taxation?
System was inflexible, severe drop in population
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What is an 'Act of Resumption'?
The King claiming back lands that had been given away
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What is an 'Act of Attainder'?
Against nobles and can either give lands away or absorb these confiscated estates into royal demesne
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What is royal demense?
Property held by the monarch directly
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How is Parliament a 'prop'?
Didn't meet regularly, ED IV uses his parliament to get rid of Clarence
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When is the Spanish Marriage? Who is it between?
1499- King Ferdinand and Isabella are the parents of Katherine of Aragon
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What did Dan Jones say about France?
That it could be 'realistically maintained'
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What is the Treaty of Picquingy?
Edward IV- 1475. Peace negotiations between France and England
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What are retinues?
Group of followers
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When and what was the Anti-retinue law?
1468- EdIV creates a loophole saying they have to have a lawful service
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What is ******* feudalism?
When men pay to have people as part of their retinue
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Why didn't people like b. feudalism?
too much independence to the lesser man, ruins 'genuine bonds' and looked like thugs were just being added
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What did Sir John Fortescue describe Over Mighty Subjects as?
He said that this was the greatest threat a King had to face
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What did K.B. Macfarlane say about them?
That you only get them when you have an under mighty King
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What were over-mighty subjects?
Born and not made, good communicators, all of the apart from the De La Poles seized a coup d'etat
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What are Idols of the multitude?
During a less charismatic King's reign, people will turn to a more charismatic leader
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When was the Percy vs Neville challenge? Where was it situated?
1453-54 in the North
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What happens?
Neville's side with Margaret of Anjou and the two Percy sons are assassinated because they don't want them having more land
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When was the Bonville and Courtney challenge? Where was it situated?
1451-61 in the Southwest
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What was it a dispute over?
Old and new nobles
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When was the Pastons challenge? Where was it based?
1461-76 in Norfolk
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How long was the 'Long Parliament'?
23 weeks
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What did Bishop of Lincoln say?
Joy turned to bitterness
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How many parliaments did Henry VI call?
22 Parliaments
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Who was Henry VI surrounded by?
Evil Councillors
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Who 'packed' their Parliament?
Ed IV
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When was the Treaty of Tours?
1444
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When was the treaty of Troyes?
1420
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Which King said they would 'live off his own'?
Henry IV
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What and why did Henry V have to sell things off?
jewelry as he was in debt
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How much was HVI in debt?
£372,000
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How much was Ed IV's annual income?
£60,000
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What did Henry VII use?
Bonds and reognizances
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Who were the people in charge of this?
Edmund Dudley and Epsom
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How much did this increase royal income by?
40%
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How much was Henry VII's income?
£100,000
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What act did RIII accept?
Bastardisation of Ed's heirs
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