Henry VII government

Question 1

Aims of council

Answer 1

• advise the king
• to administer the realm on the king’s behalf
• to make legal judgement

Question 2

Great Council

Answer 2

-gathering of the house of lords, which only met 5 times in Henry’s reign and was a means of binding nobility to maintain national security

Question 3

The council learned

Answer 3

• functioned to maintain the king’s revenue and exploit his prerogative rights
• enabled bonds and recognaisances to work fluidly and entrap may of the king’s subjects

Question 4

Privy chamber

Answer 4

-response to lord chamberlains treason, making it more difficult for those out of the king’s favour to regain his support

Question 5

Parliament

Answer 5

• two main functons, pass laws and grant taxation to the crown
• only used 7 times
• mostly used financially- 2nd 3rd 4th 6th used for granting fifteenths and tenths raising £203,000
• first parliament granted tonnage and poundage for life

Question 6

Justices of peace

Answer 6

• Henry relied on increasingly to maintain law and order in the countryside
• responsible for: tax assessments, alehouse regulation, the investigation of complaints against local officials, and the maintenance of law and order.