Henry And Wolsey

Question 1

Where was Wolsey born?

Answer 1

Ipswich

Question 2

What were wolseys humble origins? ( who was his father)

Answer 2

Butchers son not noble birth

Question 3

Who wants Wolsey’s patron ?

Answer 3

Richard fox

Question 4

What position did Wolsey get in 1509?

Answer 4

Royal almoner

Question 5

Who was Wolsey’s gentleman usher?

Answer 5

George cavendish

Question 6

What positions of power did Wolsey get in 1514?

Answer 6

Bishop of Lincon and Tournai and archbishop of York

Question 7

What positions in 1515?

Answer 7

Cardinal and lord chancellor and lord privy seal

Question 8

What position in the church did he get in 1518 and then again in 1524?

Answer 8

Papal legate gave him legatine power

Question 9

When did Wolsey issue the Eltham ordinances?

Answer 9

1526 increased power and influence over Henry

Question 10

When was black friars court?

Answer 10

June 1529

Question 11

When was Wolsey dismissed as lord chancellor and under which charges?

Answer 11

Charged with praemunire in oct 1529

Question 12

When was Wolsey arrested for treason?

Answer 12

1530 November

Question 13

Where and when does Wolsey die?

Answer 13

1530 at leister abbey.

Question 14

How much money did he raise with the amicable grant?

Answer 14

£0-uprising in Lavenham 10 000 men. Wolsey as scapegoat, had to publicly apologise and pay compensation and king withdraws request.

Question 15

How much did the subsidys raise ?

Answer 15

Total of £322,099

Question 16

How much did the forced loans raise ?

Answer 16

£260 000

Question 17

Name the yrs of each financial measure under Wolsey

Answer 17

First subsidy in 1513
Second subsidy in 1523
Forced loans in 1522/3
Amicable grant 1525

Question 18

In Wolsey’s social policy how many enquires were made about enclosures and when?

Answer 18

1517, 1518, 1526- three

Question 19

According to john guy what type of justice was Wolsey trying to promote?

Answer 19

Impartial justice

Question 20

Give examples of nobles who were persecuted in the court of the star chamber.

Answer 20

Earl of Northumberland - sent to fleet prison.
Sir Amyas Paulet- daily attendance for 5 yrs
Sir Robert Sheffield, lord of burgaverry, sir William Bowmur.

Question 21

By how much did the caseload of the star chamber increase under Wolsey?

Answer 21

120/annum

Question 22

Give an example of an overflow court that Wolsey had to set up ?

Answer 22

Court if requests in Whitehall

Question 23

How many cases were brought about in the issue of enclosures?

Answer 23

264-188 clear verdicts in court of chancery

Question 24

Why did Wolsey have to abandon the enclosure policy?

Answer 24

To get 2nd subsidy

Question 25

Name two educational institutes Wolsey founded

Answer 25

Ipswich school, cardinal college oxford.

Question 26

Which pope refused to grant the divorce of Henry and Catherine?

Answer 26

Clement VII

Question 27

Which book in the bible said that Henry should divorce Catherine because their marriage was cursed?

Answer 27

Leviticus

Question 28

Which book of the bible undermined that of Leviticus?

Answer 28

Deuteronomy

Question 29

Who was sent in 1528 to resolve the issue of the divorce but actually to stalk any decisions?

Answer 29

Camppegio

Question 30

Who defended Catherine at the black friars trial ?

Answer 30

John fisher

Question 31

Who wrote that Wolsey's downfall was "first and foremost Anne's success" ?

Answer 31

Grossell

Question 32

What were the 4 main reasons for Wolsey's downfall?

Answer 32

Foreign policy, the divorce matter with the king and not much favour, factions at court, political enemies.

Question 33

Why was it difficult for the church to allow the divorce?

Answer 33

Would be asking one pope to undermine another popes decision and would fuel anger in the already strained relationship after sack of Rome.

Question 34

How many monestries did Wolsey suppress in 1524 to fund his own schools?

Answer 34

29

Question 35

When was Wolsey born ?

Answer 35

1472(?)

Question 36

What did Wolsey study, which uni?

Answer 36

Rhetoric at Oxford

Question 37

Why was Wolsey given the title of boy bachelor ?

Answer 37

He got his degree at 15

Question 38

Who commented on the problems caused by enclosure that sheep were " man eaters" in his boo utopia?

Answer 38

Thomas Moore

Question 39

Which Wolsey hating historian, who died in his bathroom in Cambridge in 1994 , said about SOS,yes domestic policy: "Wolsey tried to do the work of 10men and , not surprisingly, failed"

Answer 39

G.R Elton

Question 40

What glorious terms was the treaty of london described ?

Answer 40

Eternal and perpetual peace

Question 41

How did Anne Boleyn weaken Wolsey's control of the patronage in 1528?

Answer 41

Rejected him to be abbess of witton .

Question 42

What did scarisbrick say about Wolsey's downfall?

Answer 42

That he was a victim of an aristocratic putsch.