Knowledge test Flashcards
- This an important organisation which advised Henry on important matters, when calling a parliament would have taken too long. Also known as magna consilia.
The Great Council
- This was a significant honour reserved for the King’s closest servants,
Patronage
- This was when Henry gave positions and titles to the nobility rather than giving them land.
Order of the Garter
- This was when your family was removed and right to inherit a nobility’s land. This would bankrupt a member of the nobility and bring social and economic rule.
Act of Attainder
- Written agreements in which people promised to pay a sum of money if they failed to carry out their promise.
Bonds
- Formal acknowledgement for a debt or an obligation that already existed with the understanding to pay money if this obligation was not met.
Recognisances
- Henry was keen to use these dues to emphasis his power.
Feudal Dues
- Henry used licenses to control this noble practice which involved the long-held noble practice of recruiting gentry of a lower social status as their followers or servants to advance their lord’s position within the land and this included the use of arms if this was felt necessary. The were given a uniform (livery) to show who their master was and it also served to reinforce that a retainer was under the control of his lord.
Retaining
- He held on to as much of this land as possible. The more he possessed the more power he had.
Crown lands
- Name one of Henry’s loyal supporters other than Jasper Tudor.
Earl of Oxford (John De Vere)
Thomas Stanley (Earl of Derby)
Robert, Lord Willoughby de Broke.
Rhys Ap Thomas (Welsh soldier and landholder who rose to prominence during the Wars of the Roses, and was instrumental in the victory of Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth. He remained a faithful supporter of Henry and was rewarded with lands and offices in South Wales.)
- Name a member of the nobility who had his attainder reversed.
Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey
- How many acts of attainder did Henry pass?
138
- How many attainders did Henry reverse?
46
- Which member of the nobility was fined £70,550 for illegally retaining?
Lord Burgavenny
- Who was fined £7,000 for marrying without the king’s licence?
Katherine Dowager Duchess of Buckingham
- What were Edmund De La Pole’s grievances towards Henry?
- Losing some land to the crown
- Had to pay a relief of £5,000
- Demoted from being a duke to an earl
- Who did Perkin Warbeck pretend to be?
Richard the Duke of York
- Who did Lambert Simnel pretend to be?
Edward the Earl of Warwick
- when did the Stafford brothers and Lovell lead a Yorkist uprising?
1486
- How many Earls Did Henry Make?
3
- How many noblemen were in England during Henry’s Reign?
50
- when was the star chamber created and what was it for?
Star chamber Act 1497- used to deal with threats to England’s stability
- what was the job of JPs and how many were there?
- implementing laws, govt. policy and public order
- from 1495 could vet juries to ensure there were no corrupt members
- from 1487 could grant those awaiting trial bail
- arrest poachers or hunters/ replace jury members whod been bribed
There were 18 per county
- When was the act of resumption?
1486
- What is meant by ordinary revenue?
For Henry VII, ordinary revenue consisted of:
- income from crown lands
- custom duties
- feudal dues (relief/wardship/livery)
- profits of justice (fines/fees for legal documents)
- rents sales of crops and resources from crown lands
- What is meant by Extraordinary revenue?
- Bonds and recognisance
- Loans benevolences (gifts) given without the expectation of repayment
- Feudal dues( due on specific occasions like marriage of monarchs daughter)
- Special taxes agreed b parliament fro specific needs
- based on property and goods
- The French Pension
- What did the council learned in law do?
- investigated and enforced long forgotten feudal dues
- enforced bonds and recognisances
- increased crown revenue and kept nobles under scrutiny
- what were Henry’s domestic policy aims?
- promote trade
- improve law and order
- illegal retaining
- increasing crown revenue
- why was William Stanley accused of treason?
Stanley was accused of telling Robert Clifford, who informed on him, that if he was sure Perkin was indeed Edward’s son ‘he would never take up arms against him’
- when did Henry call parliament and why?
only when necessary and because statute law was more powerful than royal proclamations- enforce more important policies like law to give JPs more power in 1495 and the Act of Resumption in 1486
CALLED ONLY 7 TIMES- 5 TIMES IN FIRST DECADE OF REIGN
