English Society At The End Of The Fifteenth Century

Question 1

What was the peerage (3)

Answer 1

Nobility
Landholders who exercised considerable power in their locality
Members of the House of Lords

Question 2

Nobility (3)

Answer 2

50 or 60 men
Relied on to look after countryside
Henry vii reluctant to make new peerage titles = deeply distrustful of nobles

Question 3

What was bastard feudalism (retaining) (2+)

Answer 3

Wealthy magnates recruited knights and gentlemen (retainers) to serve as administers, accountants or for military service
Could be used to bring unlawful influence on others in court or used against crown

Question 4

Henry’s response to retaining

Answer 4

Had parliament pass acts in 1487 and 1504

Question 5

Limits put on retaining (2+)

Answer 5

1486 = peers and MPs required to take an oath against illegal retaining or being illegal retained
1504 = act passed under which licenses for retaining must be sought

Question 6

1504 act example (2)

Answer 6

Lord Bergavenny
Indicted for retaining in 1507 and fined 100,000

Question 7

What did gentry sought and what were they (3)

Answer 7

Sought knighthoods as confirmation of social status
Great landowners
Sir Reginald bray

Question 8

Amount of knights by when (2)

Answer 8

1490 = 500 knights
Peers and knights owned 15 to 20% of country’s land

Question 9

what was a peasant (2)

Answer 9

Yeomanry and husbandmen
Not town dwellers

Question 10

Types of farming across England (4+)

Answer 10

Mixed = Suffolk, Kent and Norfolk
Pastoral = North and north west = rearing of sheep etc
Londoners looked down in northerners = savagery
Northerners envious of southern riches

Question 11

When Yorkshire rebellion

Answer 11

1489

Question 12

Why Yorkshire rebellion (2)

Answer 12

Resentment of tax granted by parliament in 1489
Used to finance the involvement of English forces in the campaign in Brittany

Question 13

What Yorkshire rebellion

Answer 13

Murder of earl of Northumberland in north riding of Yorkshire = April

Question 14

What rebellion (2)

Answer 14

Yorkshire = 1489
Cornish = 1497

Question 15

Cornish rebellion why

Answer 15

Tax used to finance the campaign against Scotland

Question 16

Why was Cornish a huge threat (3+)

Answer 16

Number involved = 15,000
Attempt to exploit it by perkin Warbeck
Rebels marched on London - only halted by blackheath

Question 17

What did Cornish rebellion arise (2)

Answer 17

Questions how effective crown was at controlling countryside
By reaching London they challenged the security of kings regime

Question 18

How was Cornish rebellion crushed (3)

Answer 18

Henry withdrew lord Daubeney and troops from Scotland
Crushed easily and rebel leaders executed
Treated the bulk of rebels with leniency

Question 19

Cost of living like under Henry vii (2)

Answer 19

Better than any other Tudor monarch
Spending power of peasants at highest

Question 20

How many nobles families did Henry control

Answer 20

36/62

Question 21

Henry lacked authority due to Yorkshire rebellion why

Answer 21

Only received 27000 of 100000 in tax granted by parliament in 1489

Question 22

Henry successfully suppress Cornish rebellion how

Answer 22

1000 rebels killed by military and then the rest fled quickly