Knowledge test

Question 1

1. This an important organisation which advised Henry on important matters, when calling a parliament would have taken too long. Also known as magna consilia.

Answer 1

The Great Council

Question 2

2. This was a significant honour reserved for the King’s closest servants,

Answer 2

Patronage

Question 3

3. This was when Henry gave positions and titles to the nobility rather than giving them land.

Answer 3

Order of the Garter

Question 4

4. 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.

Answer 4

Act of Attainder

Question 5

5. Written agreements in which people promised to pay a sum of money if they failed to carry out their promise.

Answer 5

Bonds

Question 6

6. Formal acknowledgement for a debt or an obligation that already existed with the understanding to pay money if this obligation was not met.

Answer 6

Recognisances

Question 7

7. Henry was keen to use these dues to emphasis his power.

Answer 7

Feudal Dues

Question 8

8. 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.

Answer 8

Retaining

Question 9

9. He held on to as much of this land as possible. The more he possessed the more power he had.

Answer 9

Crown lands

Question 10

10. Name one of Henry’s loyal supporters other than Jasper Tudor.

Answer 10

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.)

Question 11

11. Name a member of the nobility who had his attainder reversed.

Answer 11

Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey

Question 12

12. How many acts of attainder did Henry pass?

Answer 12

138

Question 13

13. How many attainders did Henry reverse?

Answer 13

46

Question 14

14. Which member of the nobility was fined £70,550 for illegally retaining?

Answer 14

Lord Burgavenny

Question 15

15. Who was fined £7,000 for marrying without the king’s licence?

Answer 15

Katherine Dowager Duchess of Buckingham

Question 16

16. What were Edmund De La Pole’s grievances towards Henry?

Answer 16

• Losing some land to the crown
• Had to pay a relief of £5,000
• Demoted from being a duke to an earl

Question 17

17. Who did Perkin Warbeck pretend to be?

Answer 17

Richard the Duke of York

Question 18

18. Who did Lambert Simnel pretend to be?

Answer 18

Edward the Earl of Warwick

Question 19

19. when did the Stafford brothers and Lovell lead a Yorkist uprising?

Answer 19

1486

Question 20

20. How many Earls Did Henry Make?

Answer 20

3

Question 21

21. How many noblemen were in England during Henry’s Reign?

Answer 21

50

Question 22

22. when was the star chamber created and what was it for?

Answer 22

Star chamber Act 1497- used to deal with threats to England’s stability

Question 23

23. what was the job of JPs and how many were there?

Answer 23

• 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

Question 24

24. When was the act of resumption?

Answer 24

1486

Question 25

25. What is meant by ordinary revenue?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

26. What is meant by Extraordinary revenue?

Answer 26

• 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

Question 27

27. What did the council learned in law do?

Answer 27

• investigated and enforced long forgotten feudal dues
• enforced bonds and recognisances
• increased crown revenue and kept nobles under scrutiny

Question 28

28. what were Henry’s domestic policy aims?

Answer 28

• promote trade
• improve law and order
• illegal retaining
• increasing crown revenue

Question 29

29. why was William Stanley accused of treason?

Answer 29

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’

Question 30

30. when did Henry call parliament and why?

Answer 30

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