Henry VII Economy and Society

Question 1

Continuation in Agriculture

Answer 1

bad crop farming
impact of black death
mixed, pastoral and woodland farming

Question 2

Change in Agriculture

Answer 2

move towards sheep farming due to an increased wool demand
trade overseas
recovery from the black death
enclosure

Question 3

Henry’s trade deal

Answer 3

1504
Henry re-asserts a treaty with the Hanseatic league (controls trade in the Baltic sea) to make sure they would not support Yorkist claimant Earl of Suffolk (de la Pole)

Question 4

cloth trade change

Answer 4

booms at the end of the 15th century, 90% of English exports are cloth
increases to over 60% in Henry’s reign
development of weaving offers work to agricultural workers
moved out of old corporate boroughs into new manufacturing centres

Question 5

other industries

Answer 5

mining, still small since it was expensive

Question 6

navigation act (1)

Answer 6

1485
act forbade English merchants from loading their goods onto foreign ships if English ones were available

Question 7

Navigation act (2)

Answer 7

1489
only English ships could be used to import goods
foreign ships only used if English not available

Question 8

Intercursus malus

Answer 8

forced Phillip to hand over Suffolk

Question 9

Henry trying to control trade

Answer 9

embargo
navigation acts (weren’t very successful)
Trade embargo shows Henry was willing to sacrifice economic gains to secure his dynasty

Question 10

exploration

Answer 10

unsuccessful trips to try and find new fishing grounds
Dominated by Spain and Portugal
England was slow in catching up
John Cabot landed in Newfoundland

Question 11

evidence of prosperity

Answer 11

not much
more so stability
prices and wages remained steady
avoided a subsistence crisis

Question 12

change in English economy and what effetcs

Answer 12

mainly an increase in the cloth industry
caused people to move work place
and more enclosure which eventually caused a decline in open-land farming

Question 13

Yorkshire Rebellion

Answer 13

1489
caused by taxation granted by parliament to help Brittany
Small and largely insignificant
well know because of the murder of Earl of Northumberland by rebels

Question 14

Cornish rebellion

Answer 14

1497
sparked my extraordinary revenue being granted to raise an army against Scotland
15,000 involved
march to London but stopped at Blackheath
concerns as they were not stopped earlier
Perkin tried to capitalise this rebellion
showed Henry he needed a good relationship with the Scots

Question 15

societal strucutre

Answer 15

King
Nobility
Gentry/mercantile Bourgeoise
Yeomen/commoners- middling sort
Peasants
vagrants

Question 16

Bastard feudalism

Answer 16

retaining of soldiers

Question 17

Henry’s problem with the nobles

Answer 17

didn’t like retaining
but he needed them to hold the crowns influence in the countryside (particularly Northumberland)

Question 18

Nobles Henry relied on

Answer 18

Earl of Oxford and Lord Daubeney

Question 19

Earl of Oxford silly mistake

Answer 19

while hosting Henry he told him he had retainers, fined £15,000

Question 20

Henry’s laws against retaining

Answer 20

1487 and 1504
seeming outlawed the practice
however, Henry recognised the importance
successful in bringing it undercontrol

Question 21

another example of fines for retaining

Answer 21

1506
Lord Burgavenny
fined £70,550
Henry used his policy of bonds of good behaviour