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Councils and the court Flashcards

1
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How many men attended the Council during Henry’s reign?

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227

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2
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How many members of the Council did Henry actually conspire with?

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6/7

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What were the 3 main functions of the Council under Henry?

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  • to advise the king
  • to administer the realm on the kings behalf
  • to make legal judgements
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What were the 3 types of councillor?

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  • members of the nobility
  • Churchmen
  • Laymen, either gentry or lawyers
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Who are 2 examples of councillors who were members of the nobility?

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  • Lord Daubeney

- Lord Dynham

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Who are 2 examples of councillors who were churchmen?

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  • Richard Fox

- John Morton

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What expertise did councillor and Churchmen Richard Fox and John Morton have?

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  • they had legal training

- excellent administrators

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Who are 2 examples of councillors who were laymen wither of the gentry or lawyers?

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  • Sir Reginald Bray

- Edmund Dudley

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9
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Which had the monarchs dependance on lawyers begin?

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in the ‘second reign’ of Edward 1V from 1471

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When was John Morton promoted by his services to Henry as Archbishop of Canterbury?

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1486

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When did John Morton become a cardinal?

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1493

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12
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What 2 roles did Sir Reginald Bray have?

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  • Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

- led the council learned in law

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What were 2 problems with the Council?

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  • no established rules and procedures

- members met separately

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What did the ‘professional’ councillors Bray and Dudley often meet in London to discuss while other councillors were with the king elsewhere?

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legal and administrative matters

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How many times did the Great Council meet throughout Henry’s reign?

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5 times

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16
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What issues were the Great Council concerned about?

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issues relating to war or rebellion and a means of binding the nobility to decisions relating to national security

17
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When was the Council learned in law developed?

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during the second half of Henrys reign

18
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Who at first developed Council learned in law during the second half of Henrys reign?

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Sir Reginald Bray

19
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Where would the Council learned in law meet where it formed what the modern historian John guy describes as a ‘specialist board’?

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in the office of the Duchy of Lancaster

20
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What was the function of the Council learned in law?

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to maintain the kings revenue and to exploit his prerogative rights

21
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What did the Council Learned make work so effectively in doing?

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the system of bonds and recognisances

22
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How as the Council Learned ‘shady’?

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because it was not a recognised court of law and those summoned before it had no chance to appeal

23
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Why did modern historian Thomas Penn agree that the Council Learned caused fear, frustration an anger?

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as it bypassed the normal legal system

24
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Who were Sir Reginald Bray’s (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) associates in the Council Learned?

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  • lawyers Empson and Dudley
25
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When did Sir Reginald Bray die?

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1503

26
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Together what did Empson and Dudley form?

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a feared combination of able and conscientious bureaucrats who raised the extraction of money from the king’s subjects to a fine art

27
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Who were 2 of Empson and Dudley’s enemies amongst some of the kings key advisers?

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  • Bishop Fox

- Sir Thomas Lovell

28
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From what year was Empson a member of the kings Council?

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1494

29
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What was the centre of government?

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the royal court

30
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Who were the most influential courtiers?

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the Lord Chamberlain and other senior household officials

31
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Why was it significant that Sir William Stanley had been involved in a treasonable plot with the pretender Perkin Warbeck in 1495?

A

As he had been given the trusted role as Lord Chamberlain

32
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Why was the creation of the Privy Chamber important?

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as this meant Henry cut himself off from much of the traditional contacts at court

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