Economic and Society issues under Somerset and Northumberland

Question 1

Prices went up steeply when a run of bad harvests coincided with setbacks in oversea trade. While the gentry had capital to exploit their opportunities and yeomen and husbandmen could profit from the rise in the price of farm produce; which 2 areas of classes with little or no land became further impoverished?

Answer 1

poor husbandmen and the cottager class

Question 2

in what year did Somerset set up a commission to inquire into the evils of enclosures?

Answer 2

1548

Question 3

What was the cause of the Kett rebellion?

Answer 3

economic failings

Question 4

Who’s course of sermons on the iniquities of the times highlighted all that was wrong with the regime?

Answer 4

Latimer’s

Question 5

In what year was there a currency crisis?

Answer 5

1551

Question 6

How did Northumberland respond to the 1551 currency crisis?

Answer 6

He devalued the currency further before restoring the value in 1552

Question 7

Between which 2 years was there a collapse in the cloth trade?

Answer 7

1551-1552

Question 8

What year was the Treaty of Boulogne?

Answer 8

1550

Question 9

In which 5 years were there bad harvests?

Answer 9

1549, 1550, 1551, 1555, 1556

Question 10

Other than bad harvests in 1549, 1550, 1551, 1555, 1556, what was another variant of the natural crisis?

Answer 10

the spread of epidemics

Question 11

Other than bad harvests in 1549, 1550, 1551, 1555, 1556, there was another variant of the natural crisis which was the spread of epidemics, especially which disease in 1551 and 1556&1558?

Answer 11

1551=sweating sickness

1556 + 1558= influenza

Question 12

Between 1556-1560 by how much was there a fall in population?

Answer 12

6-20%

Question 13

While the uprisings of 1549 were undoubtedly popular, what did none of the articles in the Western Uprising mention?

Answer 13

any disrespect towards their king, Edward V1, indicating no mass crisis

Question 14

What did Northumberland’s administration see the beginning of?

Answer 14

an interest in commercial and imperial expansion beyond Europe.

Question 15

Unemployment and debasement increased what?

Answer 15

religious polarization

Question 16

How much did the crown raise from debasing the currency from 1542-1551?

Answer 16

£1.2 million

Question 17

What has Julian Cornwall suggested caused the rebellions of 1549?

Answer 17

an acute and prolonged economic and social stress

Question 18

While inflation most definitely increased, why was this not necessarily detrimental to poorer people?

Answer 18

as landlords were unable to raise rents or entry fines due to pre-existing arrangements of long leases which were the norm in this century. It was not until the reign of Elizabeth I that a lease of 21 years was adopted.

Question 19

While landlords were legally unable to raise rents or remove tenants due to long leases, some evictions did take place, however how were tenants given security of tenure?

Answer 19

as they were all able to use the legal system to defend their rights using the court of requests

Question 20

From which years were there little enclosing taking place?

Answer 20

1520-1580

Question 21

Between 1455 and 1607, how much of the surface area of England and Wales was newly enclosed?

Answer 21

2%

Question 22

In what decade were Grain prices low?

Answer 22

most of the 1540’s