Definitions

Question 1

Enclosure

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Primogeniture

Answer 2

The eldest male son or nearest male relative inherited everything

Question 3

Laity

Answer 3

A general term for those who had not been trained and accepted as priests

Question 4

Indulgences

Answer 4

A document issued with the Pope’s authority, cancelling someones punishment in purgatory

Question 5

Patronage

Answer 5

The monarch granting special favours, such as land or positions to retain people’s support

Question 6

The Council Learned in Law

Answer 6

A Royal Council offshoot started by HVII that originally managed feudal rights and soon assumed control of all financial matters relating to the crown lands

Question 7

The Hanseatic League

Answer 7

A league of German towns which dominated trade in the Baltic, aiming to maintain a monopoly

Question 8

Papal Legate

Answer 8

Someone appointed by the Pope to act on his behalf in a particular country, usually for a specific purpose or on a limited timescale

Question 9

Arable Farming

Answer 9

labour intensive farming which produced crops using basic tools e.g. ploughs

Question 10

Book of Rates

Answer 10

The record of how much products were taxed, with that money going to the Crown

Question 11

Chantries

Answer 11

Small religious houses endowed with lands to support priests who sang mass for the sould of the deceased, usually the founder

Question 12

Debasement of the Coinage

Answer 12

A process where coins silver content was reduced with cheaper metals, allowing more coins to be circulated

Question 13

Huguenot

Answer 13

A name given to french protestants in france who followed John Calvin

Question 14

King in parliament

Answer 14

Govt by the King, when some of his functions are carried out by partliament

Question 15

Statute law

Answer 15

The highest form of law, a statute (Act of Parliament) that has been agreed by both houses and signed by the king

Question 16

Magnate

Answer 16

A term for a member of the greater nobility -barons- who owned large estates

Question 17

Marks

Answer 17

2/3 of a pound

Question 18

Monopolies

Answer 18

Rights to monopolies were granted by royal charter, allowing people to be the sole manufacturers or importers of a product

Question 19

Plantations

Answer 19

In Ireland, they were lands previously owned by Irish clans that English colonists settled on, started under EVI and encouraged under Elizabeth

Question 20

Praeminure

Answer 20

A Latin term in medieval laws that made it a crime to use powers derived from the Pope to disadvantage the king

Question 21

Proclamations

Answer 21

Decrees by the king outside the authority of parliament or when parliament was not in session

Question 22

Recusant

Answer 22

Anyone who refused to go to their parish church on a regular basis

Question 23

Stipend

Answer 23

A term for the payment a priest recieved by a priest for his appointment to a parish

Question 24

Convocation

Answer 24

A gathering of Church officials

Question 25

Attainders

Answer 25

A special law passed by parl. that allowed someone to be charged with treason without trial.

Question 26

Justices of the Peace

Answer 26

Landowners appionted annually, with several per county. Enforcing and dispensing justice to criminals.
At quarter sessions, they met and convicted those accused of more serious trials.