Northumberland

Question 1

Style of government Northumberland

Answer 1

-aimed to secure and retain power
-staffed household with his men who could control access to Edward
-William Cecil chief administrator

Question 2

How much did Northumberland sell Boulogne back for?

Answer 2

£133,333

Question 3

What were some of Northumberland’s government policies?

Answer 3

-anti-enclosure measures were discontinued
-sheep tax repealed in 1550
-1551 government took control of stocks of grain to relive the crisis caused by harvest failures
-1547 vagrancy act was repealed
-1550 new treason laws

Question 4

How much was debt reduced by?

Answer 4

£300,000 to £180,000

Question 5

What happened to trade with Antwerp?

Answer 5

Collapsed between 1551-52

Question 6

Northumberland foreign policy aims

Answer 6

1. Reduce expenditure
2. Focus on defence and security over aggression
3. Use France as a counter-weight against the threat of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire

Question 7

Key religious reforms by Northumberland

Answer 7

Second common book of prayer 1552
Removal of bishops and replacement with radical Protestant ones 1550
Church plates to be disposed of 1551

Question 8

When did the crown start to confiscate Church Plate?

Answer 8

1551

Question 9

When did Northumberland stage a coup overthrow Somerset?

Answer 9

October 1549

Question 10

How much did Northumberland raise in parliamentary taxes?

Answer 10

£537,000

Question 11

Who was the architect of the 1552 Book of Common Prayer?

Answer 11

Thomas Cranmer

Question 12

What is Northumberland’s failed coup in 1552 known as?

Answer 12

The Devyse

Question 13

What was Lady Jane Grey’s relation to the Duke of Northumberland?

Answer 13

Daughter-in-law: Married to Northumberland’s son Guildford Dudley.

Question 14

What was included in the poor law of 1552?

Answer 14

• Parish responsibility for poor
• Compulsory contributions ordered

Question 15

What religious changes occurred in 1552?

Answer 15

• Treason Act
• Book of Common Prayer
• Second Act of
Uniformity

Question 16

What happened to cloth trade to Antwerp?

Answer 16

It dropped in 1551 leading to unemployment in England

Question 17

What was the Forty-Two Articles of Religion, 1553?

Answer 17

Issued by Cranmer to define the doctrine of the Church – not implemented as Edward died before it was passed

Question 18

How much did Northumberland reduce the debt by?

Answer 18

Reduced by £120,000 between 1550 and 1553

Question 19

By what names / titles is Northumberland also known?

Answer 19

• John Dudley
• Earl of Warwick

Question 20

What tax was repealed in 1550?

Answer 20

Sheep tax

Question 21

When was Northumberland’s final debasement and how much did it raise?

Answer 21

May-August 1550 and £114500