English Society In The Reign Of Henry VIII

Question 1

How much did the nobility increase in members from the start to the end of Henry’s reign?

Answer 1

9 more peers

Question 2

How did new nobility mainly get to that status?

Answer 2

Royal service and courtiers

Question 3

Why was Suffolk given property in 1536?

Answer 3

The rebellion in Lincolnshire

Question 4

Who was endowed with land in Devon due to being raised to the nobility?

Answer 4

John, Baron Russell

Question 5

Why did Henry often give nobles property?

Answer 5

To exercise royal authority

Question 6

What did noble households remain critical?

Answer 6

Maintenance of local influence and royal army recruitment

Question 7

How was bastard feudalism dying?

Answer 7

It became more under the control of the monarch

Question 8

Who was executed in 1541 for the murder of a neighbour’s servant?

Answer 8

Thomas Fiennes, Baron Dacre of the South

Question 9

When was the Duke of Buckingham executed?

Answer 9

1521

Question 10

When were Henry’s relatives, Henry Courtenay and Henry Pole Baron Montague, get executed?

Answer 10

1538

Question 11

Why did Lord Darcy and Hussey die?

Answer 11

For their roles in the rebellion of 1536

Question 12

How many gentry families, according to John Guy, were there in 1540?

Answer 12

5000

Question 13

How was the status of the gentry certified?

Answer 13

Royal heralds

Question 14

What did your income have to be after 1530 to be granted status of the gentry?

Answer 14

Lands worth £10 or more per annum or goods worth £300 or more

Question 15

What did members of the gentry want their sons to acquire to take over their role?

Answer 15

Legal training

Question 16

How did some laymen become members of the gentry?

Answer 16

Unpaid local administrators

Question 17

What made commoners create outbreaks of disorder?

Answer 17

Drop in real incomes from inflation and the Amicable Grant

Question 18

Was Wales a separate territory from England before 1536?

Answer 18

Yes

Question 19

What did the Welsh compromise due to being under English control?

Answer 19

Border lordships and the Principality of Wales

Question 20

What did the Laws in Wales Act of 1536 do?

Answer 20

• Divided Wales into shire counties
• Gave Welsh direct representation in the House of Commons
• brought Wales into the same legal framework as England

Question 21

What were the 3 counties, Lancashire, Cheshire and Durham? What did it mean to be in one of these?

Answer 21

The English Palatinates, they had a separate jurisdiction

Question 22

What act in 1536 reduced the independence of the bishops?

Answer 22

The Act Resuming Liberties to the Crown

Question 23

Which 4 bordering counties in England came under the jurisdiction of the Council of Wales and the Marches?

Answer 23

Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire

Question 24

What was common on the Anglo-Scottish border?

Answer 24

Lawlessness

Question 25

What governed the Anglo-Welsh border?

Answer 25

The Principality of Wales

Question 26

How many wardens were on the Anglo-Scottish border, each controlling one part of the border?

Answer 26

3

Question 27

Why did Cromwell re-establish the Council of the North?

Answer 27

The Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536

Question 28

Who was executed due to denying the royal supremacy of the Church?

Answer 28

Sir Thomas More

Question 29

What did the royal injunctions of 1536 do?

Answer 29

Attacked practices of Catholicism, such as holy days, pilgrimages and veneration of relics

Question 30

What caused the Lincolnshire Rising and Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536?

Answer 30

Royal injunctions of 1536

Question 31

What were the 4 long lasting social consequences of the religious upheaval in 1536?

Answer 31

- Huge amount of Church land taken by the Crown - Monastic schools were lost - Monks and nuns rendered unemployed - Dissolution of the Monasteries

Question 32

How much of Church lands acquired by the Crown were sold off?

Answer 32

Two-thirds

Question 33

Where was the strongest resistance to the Amicable Grant?

Answer 33

South Suffolk and north Essex

Question 34

How many taxation resisters of the Amicable Grant were reported in Essex, and reported by the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk overall?

Answer 34

5000

Question 35

What did the rebellion of the Amicable Grant teach Henry?

Answer 35

He couldn’t operate in defiance of the tax paying classes

Question 36

When did the Lincolnshire Rising start?

Answer 36

October 1536

Question 37

Where did the Lincolnshire Rising and Pilgrimage of Grace happen in 1536?

Answer 37

Lincolnshire, West Riding of Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire for Lincolnshire Rising Rip on and Richmond, north Lancashire, Durham and the West Riding of Yorkshire for the Pilgrimage of Grace

Question 38

Where did the rebellion revive in early 1537?

Answer 38

Cumberland

Question 39

What were the 2 religious motives of the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536?

Answer 39

- Dissolution of the monasteries | - Fear for parish churches and traditional religious practices

Question 40

Why did rebels find the dissolution of the monasteries undesirable?

Answer 40

Loss of charity and education, parish churches, increase of impoverishment, usefulness of the facilities of the monasteries

Question 41

What were seen as attacking traditional religious practices?

Answer 41

1536 royal injunctions

Question 42

What were 4 secular motives of the rebellions in 1536?

Answer 42

- Economic grievances of ordinary rebels more than their leaders - Crown’s attempts to impose Duke of Suffolk upon Lincolnshire - The courtly conspiracy prompted by councillors who were supporters of Catherine of Aragon - Tenants’ grievances in Cumberland and Westmorland

Question 43

How did the Lincolnshire Rising collapse?

Answer 43

The Duke of Norfolk’s forces

Question 44

How did the Duke of Norfolk defuse the rebellion in Doncaster in 1536?

Answer 44

Issued a pardon and restore dissolved monasteries and a free Parliament was established

Question 45

How did Norfolk resolve the renewal of rebellion in February 1537?

Answer 45

Hanged 74 rebels