E early economic/society/fp

Question 1

Name the context of England when Elizabeth came to the throne

Answer 1

Bad harvest 
High mortality rate 
High taxation
Sig cut in real wages 
Fear of social instability

Question 2

How did the Council of the North try to deal with wage rates?

Answer 2

attempted to get York and Hull to enforce schedule of wage rates

Question 3

How many labourers were charged with unlawfully high wages?

Answer 3

113 labourers

Question 4

What national law was passed in 1563 to aid workers?

Answer 4

1563 Statute of Artificers

Question 5

Name four parts of the Statue of Artificers

Answer 5

Compulsive labour esp. At harvest time
Min period of 1 year of hire for workmen where they could not leave or be dismissed w/o a good course
Prohibition 2 anyone following a craft unless undergone 7-year apprenticeship
The setting of max wages rates by JP in every county

Question 6

How did Elizabeth handle the debasement issue?

Answer 6

Scheme to withdraw debased coins in 1561
Created statue of artificers to sought fix prices
. Prices still rose but gov was not to blame

Question 7

How was the idle poor treated?

Answer 7

As vagabonds

they were whipped and finned without a license and begging.

Question 8

When were Acts on the poor?

Answer 8

Acts in 1552 and 1558

Ineffective Act of 1563 which finned those who didn’t contribute to poor relief

Question 9

What were the two types of poor?

Answer 9

Deserving and undeserving poor

Question 10

Name the terms of the Treaty of Canteau Cambresis

Answer 10

Treaty of Cateau Cambresis April 1559
Peace with France and F keep Calais 4 8 years then returned to E control provided E keeps the peace if fail 500,000 crowns ( £ 125k )

Question 11

Name the treaty between France and England that involved Calais. And when was it agreed?

Answer 11

Treaty of Cateau Cambresis April 1559

Question 12

Describe the relationship with Scotland in the early period

Answer 12

H 2 died June 1559 succeeded by the husband of Mary Queen of Scots
Context = Knox 1558 The 1st blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women in 1558
Cecil wanted 2 remove Mary and sympathetic to Scottish protestants
£££, armaments, but Dec 1559 navy sent 2 Firth of Forth.
Treaty of Berwick feb 1560
July Treaty of Edinburgh july
Death of Francis meant Mary returned 2 Scotland

Question 13

Describe the intervention in France

Answer 13

March 1562 Robert Dudley encourage E 2 put military pressure on the French
E promise Huguenot leader Prince of Conde, 6k men and 30k loan and control of Le Havre port as security
Huguenot’s army defeated and Conde captured, Duke of Guis was assassinated. Peace was agreed. In Treaty of Troyes in 1564. LOSS OF CALAIS AS WELL.

Question 14

What happened to Antwerp in the early 1550s

Answer 14

Antwerp trade collapsed

Question 15

How many died during the 1556-1558 typhus epidemic?

Answer 15

1556-1558 typhus epidemic killed 1/10 people

Question 16

When were the worst harvest failures of the century.

Answer 16

1555+1556 worst harvest failures of the century