Henry VIII economy

Question 1

What did the rise in population cause?

Answer 1

Food and land shortages, unemployment, poverty, vagrancy and urban squalor

Question 2

How much did woollen cloth exports increase by

Answer 2

2x

Question 3

What did the increase in imported wine mean?

Answer 3

An increased spending power of the more prosperous classes

Question 4

Where were negatively impacted as more cloth went through London?

Answer 4

Bristol, Hull and Boston

Question 5

Who enjoyed a boom in trade with Venice?

Answer 5

Southampton

Question 6

What was the biggest change in the cloth trade?

Answer 6

An increase in cheaper fabrics like Kersey

Question 7

What percent of cloth exports were transported by English merchants from 1550s?

Answer 7

70%

Question 8

Which areas saw an increase in trade?

Answer 8

West riding of Yorkshire, East Anglia (especially South Suffolk) and parts of the West country (especially Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Devon)

Question 9

Who gained wealth and social status from cloth?

Answer 9

William Stumpe of Malmesbury in Wiltshire became MP for Malmesbury, high sheriff of the county, wealth landowners and beneficiary from the dissolution of monasteries

Question 10

What other industries grew?

Answer 10

• Cornish tin
• Lead
• Coal
• Blast furnaces produced iron ore in the weald of Sussex and Kent and they were 26 by 1550s

Question 11

What were the developments for exploration?

Answer 11

• Henry VIII was uninterested in exploration trying not to build on Cabot and Bristol merchants
• Robert Thorne, a Bristol trader, continued his involvement in an Iceland and Newfoundland fishery
• Merchants had a lack of royal support
• Sebastian Cabot remained in Spain for Henry VIII’s reign except for 2 small trips to England
• Cabot was assisted in his map - making activities by Thorne’s son who ore the same name as him

Question 12

What does Guy believe?

Answer 12

England was economically healthier, more expensive and more optimistic under the Tudors than at any time since Roman occupation

Question 13

How did farming incomes increase?

Answer 13

• An increase in agricultural prices from 1520s
• Engrossing (the joining of two or more farms in a single agricultural unit)

Question 14

When were there bad harvests?

Answer 14

1520 - 21 and 1527 - 29

Question 15

How much did food prices increase and who did it impact?

Answer 15

2x and urban workers

Question 16

Who had no personal wealth?

Answer 16

1/2 of the population of Coventry and 1/3 of the population of Yarmouth

Question 17

What was the population in 1547?

Answer 17

3.2 million

Question 18

What were the impacts of enclosure?

Answer 18

• Legislation against it was made in 1489 and 1515
• Thomas More’s utopia published in 1516 highlighted social effects of enclosure
• Wolsey launched an enclosure commission in 1517 to reduce the problems and 188 defendants were found to enclose illegally
• Enclosure was common in East Midland villages
• In 1534, legislation was passed which attempted to limit sheep ownership and engrossing