Henry VII Flashcards
Was Henry the first to use Spies?
No
What formed a communication network between monarch and people?
Social structure itself - nobles communicate advice to the king - king uses nobles as a mouthpiece
How was Henry informed about the Cornish rebellion?
1497 - scouts and spies
Who else helped with Henry’s spy network?
Scotland and France
What else did Henry do?
Place ambassadors from abroad in royal courts - kept homeland closely informed
Where was used as a base for espionage?
Calais
Where did Henry have particular concern about?
Low Countries
Who was the main supporter of all Yorkist plots?
Margaret of Burgundy
What did he try to do with her court?
Infiltrate it with spies to obtain info in the 1490s
Who was likely a spy?
Sir Richard Clifford
Who was used as a double agent?
Stanley?
Who was the System successful against?
Perkin Warbeck and Warwick
What was routinely used by the English?
Ciphers
What were bonds?
Financial pressure place on the nobility to gain information and secure loyalty
How did Henry control the nobles?
Through fear
Who were bonds imposed on?
People whose loyalty was questionable or were liable to quarrel
How much of the peerage had to pay money?
More than half
What was the consequence of payments not always being called in?
Continual threat of being forced to sacrifice a large amount of money if they offended the king
How much was Lord Abergavenny fined in 1507?
£70,000
What was the agreement with Abergavenny when he couldn’t pay?
Payment of £5000 over a year for the next 10 years
What was the nature of the marriage to Elizabeth?
Strategic - fulfilment of the pact made during his exile - united Lancastrians and Yorkists
What was the Beaufort symbol?
Portcullis
When was he officially engaged to Elizabeth?
10th December 1485
What did they have to get to be married?
Papal dispensation to marry
How did they get around the fact that Elizabeth was basically illegitimate?
Parliament ordered the destruction of the Act in Jan 1485
When were Elizabeth and Henry Married?
18th Jan
How many kids did Elizabeth and Henry have?
5 who survived infancy
What was the embodiment of the Tudor rose?
Arthur - their first son
Who was in charge of Henry’s finances?
Henry
Who was in charge of the bond system and stuff like that?
Edmund Dudley
How many people did Henry attaint?
138 - 28 nobles after Stoke
When was Henry’s first statute against retaining?
1487 - cleared up the ambiguity of “lawful retaining”
When was Henry’s second statute against retaining?
1504 - introduced a form of licensing - men could employ retainers for the king’s service alone
Who was indicted for illegal retaining?
Buckingham, Derby, Essex, Oxford, Shrewsbury
Who protected the king in 1496?
Northumberland
How many earls did Henry create?
One - Ed made 9
How many barons did he make?
5 - Ed made 13
How did number of peers drop?
57 to 44
What lead to Stanley’s execution in 1495?
Clifford’s info
Who were also spied on?
Northumberland and Stafford
How many bonds were collected within his first decade?
191
How much did bonds earn a year in 1493?
£3,000
What had this increase to by 1505?
£35,000
What were recognisances?
Formal acknowledgements of debts/obligations that already existed
How much did Beaumont owe?
£10,000
What did Henry gain a bad reputation for?
Avarice
What lead to the Yorkshire rebellion?
Announcement of a parliamentary tax of a “tenth” to fund defence of Brittany against the French
How did the government try to convince people to pay their taxes?
Henry Percy - Northumberland - gave a speech at Topcliffe
What happened to Northumberland?
He was lynched
Why was hostility increased?
North paid less tax for defence because they were more directly engaged with defence with Scotland
When did Henry break this custom?
1489
Why did the north not like the Tudor regime?
Where Richard III had most of his following
Why did the Northumberland retinue fail to defend Percy?
Northumberland’s retinue had previously had Richard III as their good lord - loyalty to Richard
Where was Northumberland in charge of?
Scottish Marches
What was Henry worried that the Yorkist rebellion would become
A wider pro-Yorkist rebellion
What happened to the rebels?
Began to be fearful about the consequences of such a high status murder
Who went to subdue to rebels?
Surrey and Henry