effect on Tudor society

Question 1

Simnel effect on society

Answer 1

1487

Battle showed fate of monarchy could still be decided by battle
Henry’s hold on crown to secure - married Elizabeth of York to unite the two families
Deprived nobles who had fought against him at Stoke of land and attainted them

Question 2

Yorkshire effect on society

Answer 2

1489
No further trouble from region

Appointed Earl of Surrey as Lieutenant - had no interests in North so loyal to Tudors - the restoration of his lands depended on his success

Question 3

Cornish effect on society

Answer 3

1497
Government never again asked for so much money

Heavy fines worked well = useful cash +

Gov continued to raise tax though parliament when it was needed

Question 4

Amicable Grant effect on society

Answer 4

Reassessed tax impacted Henry Vlll’s plan for war vs France - invasion of France abandoned

Tudors change policy to collect more taxes from rich, and less from poor When Henry collected benevolences in 1540s he targeted wealthier groups, not poor

Question 5

Silken Thomas effect on society

Answer 5

Cost £25,000 to suppress

weakening of the Fitzgerald family had negative consequences as they had kept other great Irish families down - rival clans like Butlers, O’Neil, O’Mores, O’Connors and O’Donnell’s felt less intimidated and more willing to break the law

For the first time is English-born officials were appointed to key administrative posts as lord deputies, lieutenants, treasures and chancellors

English determination to install Cromwellian system fundamentally destabilised relations between London and the Anglo-Irish lords – C16th would become a century of rebellion in Ireland

Attempt to impose further reform in Ireland was much less successful – the Reformation Parliament of 1536-7 refused to grant a subsidy and threw out all bills reforming the administration. This showed the continued lack of English strength in Ireland - English very cautious about imposing religious change in Ireland - Catholics remained
Creation of Ireland as a kingdom in 1542.

Henry became King of Ireland rather than Lord of Ireland – claiming greater loyalty and power than he had done before

Question 6

Western effect on society

Answer 6

4,000 rebels are killed by a government force of German mercenaries.

Government does not make concessions to the rebels. New revised prayer book 2 years later

Question 7

Shane O’Neill effect on society

Answer 7

Elizabeth had to spend £250,000 over 10 years on suppressing O’Neill’s rebellion

Question 8

Changes in Ireland brought by Tyrone

Answer 8

A chain of English castles throughout Ireland

Far more English officials than Irish in the administration

English law, not Gaelic, throughout Ireland

1607 Tyrone and the Earl of Tyrconnell both left Ireland for France

17th century would see plantation of Protestants from Scotland in Ulster (beginning from 1609) and more direct rule from London.

Question 9

Oxfordshire effect on society

Answer 9

Privy council restored land under tillage and initiate prosecutions against illegal enclosures