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English Society In The Reign Of Henry VIII Flashcards

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

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9 more peers

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How did new nobility mainly get to that status?

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Royal service and courtiers

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3
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Why was Suffolk given property in 1536?

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The rebellion in Lincolnshire

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

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John, Baron Russell

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5
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Why did Henry often give nobles property?

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To exercise royal authority

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6
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What did noble households remain critical?

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Maintenance of local influence and royal army recruitment

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7
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How was bastard feudalism dying?

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It became more under the control of the monarch

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

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Thomas Fiennes, Baron Dacre of the South

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9
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When was the Duke of Buckingham executed?

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1521

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

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1538

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11
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Why did Lord Darcy and Hussey die?

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For their roles in the rebellion of 1536

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12
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How many gentry families, according to John Guy, were there in 1540?

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5000

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13
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How was the status of the gentry certified?

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Royal heralds

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

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

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

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Legal training

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How did some laymen become members of the gentry?

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Unpaid local administrators

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17
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What made commoners create outbreaks of disorder?

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Drop in real incomes from inflation and the Amicable Grant

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18
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Was Wales a separate territory from England before 1536?

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Yes

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19
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What did the Welsh compromise due to being under English control?

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Border lordships and the Principality of Wales

20
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What did the Laws in Wales Act of 1536 do?

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  • Divided Wales into shire counties
  • Gave Welsh direct representation in the House of Commons
  • brought Wales into the same legal framework as England
21
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What were the 3 counties, Lancashire, Cheshire and Durham? What did it mean to be in one of these?

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The English Palatinates, they had a separate jurisdiction

22
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What act in 1536 reduced the independence of the bishops?

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The Act Resuming Liberties to the Crown

23
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Which 4 bordering counties in England came under the jurisdiction of the Council of Wales and the Marches?

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Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire

24
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What was common on the Anglo-Scottish border?

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Lawlessness

25
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What governed the Anglo-Welsh border?

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The Principality of Wales

26
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How many wardens were on the Anglo-Scottish border, each controlling one part of the border?

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3

27
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Why did Cromwell re-establish the Council of the North?

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The Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536

28
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Who was executed due to denying the royal supremacy of the Church?

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Sir Thomas More

29
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What did the royal injunctions of 1536 do?

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

30
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What caused the Lincolnshire Rising and Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536?

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Royal injunctions of 1536

31
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What were the 4 long lasting social consequences of the religious upheaval in 1536?

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  • Huge amount of Church land taken by the Crown
  • Monastic schools were lost
  • Monks and nuns rendered unemployed
  • Dissolution of the Monasteries
32
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How much of Church lands acquired by the Crown were sold off?

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Two-thirds

33
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Where was the strongest resistance to the Amicable Grant?

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South Suffolk and north Essex

34
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How many taxation resisters of the Amicable Grant were reported in Essex, and reported by the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk overall?

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5000

35
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What did the rebellion of the Amicable Grant teach Henry?

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

36
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When did the Lincolnshire Rising start?

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October 1536

37
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Where did the Lincolnshire Rising and Pilgrimage of Grace happen in 1536?

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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

38
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Where did the rebellion revive in early 1537?

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Cumberland

39
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What were the 2 religious motives of the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536?

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  • Dissolution of the monasteries

- Fear for parish churches and traditional religious practices

40
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Why did rebels find the dissolution of the monasteries undesirable?

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

41
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What were seen as attacking traditional religious practices?

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1536 royal injunctions

42
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What were 4 secular motives of the rebellions in 1536?

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  • 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
43
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How did the Lincolnshire Rising collapse?

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The Duke of Norfolk’s forces

44
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How did the Duke of Norfolk defuse the rebellion in Doncaster in 1536?

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

45
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How did Norfolk resolve the renewal of rebellion in February 1537?

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Hanged 74 rebels

History (Tudors - Henry VIII 1509-1547) (6 decks)

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