Elites&Commoners

Question 1

Who represented the social elite?

Answer 1

the traditional nobles and the greater gentry

Question 2

What type of influence did the social elite have?

Answer 2

economic and political

Question 3

How many peers were there by the end of Henry V111’s reign than there was at the beginning?

Answer 3

9

Question 4

How had most peers achieved their rank?

Answer 4

as a result of royal service as courtiers soldiers

Question 5

How were peers ranks enhanced by a close family relationship, give an example

Answer 5

the kings brother-in-law Edward Seymour was elevated to the earldom of Hertford

Question 6

Who was the only Duke in England when Henry first came to the throne?

Answer 6

Edward Stafford the Duke of Buckingham

Question 7

Which 2 non-royal ducal titles did Henry promote?

Answer 7

Norfolk and Suffolk

Question 8

What was the history behind the ducal title of Norfolk?

Answer 8

Norfolk was restored to the titles which had been enjoyed by his father

Question 9

How was Suffolk given a ducal title?

Answer 9

seemed to have been promoted on account of the closeness of his personal relationship with the king

Question 10

Where was Suffolk bestowed property after the rebellion there in 1536?

Answer 10

Lincolnshire

Question 11

Why would Henry bestow property on nobles?

Answer 11

to enable them to exert royal authority in particular areas

Question 12

Why was John, Baron Russell raised to peerage and endowed with lands in Devon?

Answer 12

to bolster royal authority in the south-west following the execution of the Marquess of Exeter

Question 13

Who was raised to peerage and endowed with lands in Devon to bolster royal authority in the south west after the execution of the Marquess of Exeter?

Answer 13

John, Baron Russell

Question 14

Who was John, Baron Russell? (3)

Answer 14

• a diplomat and solider
• became a councillor in 1536
• Following the fall of the Marquess of Exeter he was granted a huge amount of monastic land in Devon to bolster royal support in the south west

Question 15

What 2 factors strained the relationship between Henry and the Marquess of Exeter?

Answer 15

His identification was with the Aragonese faction and his enmity towards Cromwell

Question 16

What were expected of nobles?

Answer 16

To have great households and offer hospitality ti their affinity and neighbours

Question 17

What was affinity?

Answer 17

described to all persons who had relationships with a person of higher status based on land holdings

Question 18

What were noble households critical to? (2)

Answer 18

the maintenance of local influence

to the recruitment of royal armies

Question 19

How many men did the Earl of Shrewbury raise for the invasion of France in 1513?

Answer 19

over 4000

Question 20

Who is an example of how the nobility were being brought more under the control of the monarch?

Answer 20

Baron Dacre of the South was tried in 1541 for the murder of a neighbours servant and hanged like a common criminal

Question 21

What was tried for murder in 1541 for the murder of a neighbours servant and hanged like a common criminal?

Answer 21

Baron Dacre of the South

Question 22

When was the Duke of Buckingham executed for treason on the vaguest of charges?

Answer 22

1521

Question 23

Why was Henry’s relative the Marquis of Exeter executed in 1538?

Answer 23

for treasonable conspiracy

Question 24

What happened to Margret Pole Countess of Salisbury?

Answer 24

she was attained for treason and held in the Tower for over 2 years before eventually being executed

Question 25

Why were Lord Darcy and Hussey executed in 1536?

Answer 25

for their roles in the rebellion in the Pilgrimage of Grace

Question 26

How many gentry families were there in 1540?

Answer 26

5000

Question 27

Why were knighthoods conferred?

Answer 27

as a sign of royal favour

Question 28

What would a knight possess as a reward ?

Answer 28

an income which reflected his status

Question 29

How many knightly families were there in 1524 according to a historian?

Answer 29

200

Question 30

What was a gentleman who was entitled to bear a coat of arms deemed as?

Answer 30

deemed as esquire

Question 31

By what year were heralds unwilling to grant or confirm the title of an esquire to anyone with lands worth less than £10 per annum or goods worth under £300?

Answer 31

1530

Question 32

What was the role of Heralds?

Answer 32

they certified the status of an esquire

Question 33

in addition to JPs who else were drawn into unpaid administration on behalf of the Crown?

Answer 33

members of the gentry

Question 34

Why were members of the gentry increasingly keen for their sons to acquire the legal training in the unpaid administration on behalf of the crown?

Answer 34

in order to make them better able to take on such roles as could offer the basis for local advancement

Question 35

Who did the Crowns local administration increasingly become as opposed to the former clergymen?

Answer 35

laymen

Question 36

What did the Crowns local administration allow laymen?

Answer 36

their office holding often generated the income which would bring out landownership and gentry status

Question 37

What lead to a drop in real incomes which contributed to the ill feeling felt by many towards the imposition of the Amicable Grant?

Answer 37

the rise in the rate of inflation

Question 38

although outbreaks of rebellion were relatively rare what was common amongst the commoners?

Answer 38

outbreaks of disorder