Chapter 8 - Henry VIII, government and parliament

Question 1

Who became gentlemen of the privy chamber?

Answer 1

The kings ‘minions’

Question 2

When did Wolsey remove the minions and who did he replace them with?

Answer 2

1519

His own supporters

Question 3

Which part of government was out of Wolseys control?

Answer 3

The privy chamber

Question 4

When was Wolsey chief minster?

Answer 4

1514-1529

Question 5

What was the court of chancery?

Answer 5

Wolsey tried to use this to uphold ‘fair’ justice

Question 6

What was one of the main problems of the court of chancery?

Answer 6

Justice was slow as it became clogged with too many cases

Question 7

What was the court of star chamber established under and when?

Answer 7

Act of parliament

1487

Question 8

What was Wolseys motive in extending the star chamber?

Answer 8

Increase cheap and fair justice

Question 9

How did Wolsey raise extraordinary revenue for Henry VIII’s war with France?

Answer 9

Set up a national committee

Question 10

What did Wolsey attempt to raise as he collected an insufficient amount for war?

Answer 10

Unparliamentary taxation

Question 11

What did Wolsey try to raise unparliamentary taxation through?

Answer 11

Amicable Grant of 1525

Question 12

When were the Eltham Ordinances introduced?

Answer 12

1526

Question 13

Why did Wolsey introduce the Eltham Ordinances?

Answer 13

To reform finances of the Privy Council in order to reduce household expenditure

Question 14

Who did Wolsey remove with the Eltham ordinances?

Answer 14

Groom of stool (Sir William Compton)

Question 15

What led to Wolsey’s downfall?

Answer 15

He was unable to get the kings great matter approved

Question 16

What did Henry require Wolsey to secure?

Answer 16

Papal dispensation from the pope to be able to divorce Catherine

Question 17

Who did Henry want to divorce Catherine of Aragon for?

Answer 17

Anne Boleyn

Question 18

When did Campeggio adjourn Henry’s case?

Answer 18

30th July 1529

Question 19

Why was Wolsey unpopular?

Answer 19

Forcing the 1523 subsidy through parliament and imposing amicable grant

Question 20

When was Cromwell chief minister?

Answer 20

1532-1540

Question 21

When did Henry marry Anne Boleyn?

Answer 21

15th January 1533

Question 22

When was the marriage of Henry and Catherine annuled?

Answer 22

May 1533

Question 23

What was the act in restraint of appeals, 1533?

Answer 23

Declared that appeals could not be made to Rome regarding church court decisions

Question 24

Why was the act in restraint of appeals important?

Answer 24

It meant that Catherine could not appeal to Rome against her marriage annulment

Question 25

When was the act supremacy?

Answer 25

November 1534

Question 26

What was the act of supremacy?

Answer 26

Made Henry the supreme head of the church

Question 27

What was the significance of the act of supremacy?

Answer 27

It effectively accomplished the break of rome

Question 28

What was the act of succession(April 1534)?

Answer 28

Declared that Henry’s marriage to Catherine was void and to deny validity of marriage to Anne was treasonable

Question 29

What was the treason act (November 1534)?

Answer 29

Treason could be committed through spoken word, by deed or by writting

Question 30

What was the act annexing the first fruits and tenths to the crown?

Answer 30

Collected money previously sent to Rome

Question 31

What were the court of augmentations?

Answer 31

Controlled the land and finances formerly under the control of the Catholic Church

Question 32

What did Cromwell persuade Henry that Anne Boleyn did?

Answer 32

That she had committed adultery

Question 33

Who did Henry marry after Anne Boleyn?

Answer 33

Jane Seymour

Question 34

Who gave birth to Prince Edward?

Answer 34

Jane Seymour

Question 35

Who did Cromwell try to arrange a marriage between in 1540?

Answer 35

Henry and Anne of Cleves

Question 36

Who did Henry marry after Anne of Cleves?

Answer 36

Catherine Howard

Question 37

Who did Henry marry after Catherine Howard?

Answer 37

Katherine Parr

Question 38

When did Henry VIII die?

Answer 38

28th January 1547