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Question 1

what were the features of The Eltham Ordinances?

Answer 1

• -> Cutting back the money spent on meals and servants
• -> Getting rid of sick or unneeded servants
• -> Reducing the amount of money paid to people for expenses such as food, fuel and lodgings
• -> Reducing the number of gentlemen in the privy chamber from 12 to 6

Question 2

Features of Wolsey and the enclosure

Answer 2

• -> Involved using fences to divide land into fields that were often used to graze sheep
• -> This reduced land available to tenant farmers and the poor

Question 3

What were Wolsey’s changes to the justice system?

Answer 3

• -> Strengthened the Star Chamber - a royal court that dispensed justice for the king
• -> Encouraged the poor to bring cases to court
• -> Increased the court’s work rate
• -> Supported cases of the poor against the rich
• -> Oversaw cases himself