1485 England

Question 1

Enclosure

Answer 1

The fencing off of land from open fields with the ending of all common rights over it

Question 2

Customs duties

Answer 2

Money paid on goods entering or leaving the country. Money came from tunnage (taxes on exports) and poundage (taxes on imports

Question 3

Tunnage

Answer 3

Taxes on exports

Question 4

Poundage

Answer 4

Taxes on imports

Question 5

Primogeniture

Answer 5

The eldest son or nearest male relative inherited everything

Question 6

Common land

Answer 6

Land where all villagers had the right to graze their animals

Question 7

Where was enclosure especially popular?

Answer 7

The Midlands

Question 8

What was the population of England in 1485?

Answer 8

3 million

Question 9

What % of people lived in rural communities in 1485?

Answer 9

90%

Question 10

What was the population of Norwich?

Answer 10

12,000

Question 11

How many residents lived in London

Answer 11

60,000

Question 12

Arable Farming

Answer 12

Labour-intensive farming which produced crops using basic tools, including ploughs

Question 13

Engrossing

Answer 13

Joining together of several farms to make one unit, through the process of one farmer buying the land of the others

Question 14

What was England’s main industry in 1485?

Answer 14

Cloth

Question 15

What % of England’s exports were cloth?

Answer 15

80%

Question 16

Journeymen

Answer 16

Men who travelled, hiring out their skills in the wool industry, to make a living

Question 17

Merchant adventurers

Answer 17

Controlled the exportation and trade in England

Question 18

How many nobles were there at the time?

Answer 18

50

Question 19

How many household members did the Duke of Northumberland have in 1503?

Answer 19

187

Question 20

How many ordained clergy where there?

Answer 20

35,000

Question 21

How many monks and nuns were there?

Answer 21

10,000

Question 22

What was the Papal Curia

Answer 22

Court of Law controlled by the Papacy that also acted as a court of appeal

Question 23

7 Sacraments

Answer 23

The Eucharist
Baptism
Holy Orders
Confirmation
Marriage
Confession
Unction

Question 24

Stipend

Answer 24

Payment received by a priest for his role in a parish

Question 25

Give 4 types of church corruption in the mid-late 1800s

Answer 25

Absenteeism Pluralism Immoral priests Uneducated priests

Question 26

Absenteeism

Answer 26

Clergy that were absent from their parishes, yet still claimed the stipend

Question 27

Pluralism

Answer 27

Clergy that claimed stipend from several parishes

Question 28

What was the political role of bishops and abbots?

Answer 28

They say in the House of Lords

Question 29

How much of the land did the Catholic Church own?

Answer 29

1/3

Question 30

How many endowed schools were set up in the 15th century

Answer 30

Over 100

Question 31

Who was Erasmus?

Answer 31

A Dutch humanist scholar

Question 32

Renaissance

Answer 32

A rebirth of learning and the arts, which encouraged writers and artists to become part of what the called the spirit of new learning

Question 33

Papal dispensation

Answer 33

The written permission of the Pope enabling a ruling monarch to marry or divorce

Question 34

Council

Answer 34

Ruling council of the King, mainly composed of his most influential nobles and gentry

Question 35

Who had claims to Henry VII's throne?

Answer 35

Edward, Earl of Warwick John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln

Question 36

What did Henry do to decrease the potential threat from the Earl of Surrey?

Answer 36

Kept him in prison until 1489

Question 37

What did Henry do to reduce the potential threat from the Duke of Northumberland?

Answer 37

Put him in prison until the end of 1485, then let him resume his position of ruler of the North

Question 38

What did Henry demand from Viscount Beaumont?

Answer 38

A promise to be loyal in writing that carried a fine

Question 39

How did Henry keep the Earl of Westmorland st bay?

Answer 39

Held his heir at court

Question 40

What did Henry do to reduce the threat of the Earl of Warwick?

Answer 40

Sent him to the tower

Question 41

How did Henry deal with the threat from John de la Pole and his father, the Duke of Suffolk?

Answer 41

Got them to profess their loyalty. Invited Lincoln to court