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What was enclosure

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Practice of landlords putting a fence around land that was previously common land in order to make it private land

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What was

Practice of landlords putting a fence around land that was previously common land in order to make it private land?

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Enclosure

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what was the use of common land historically?

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Provided a useful source of wood and food

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Where was enclosure common?

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Areas where sheep farming was popular

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What was happening in areas where sheep farming was common?

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Enclosure was popular in these areas

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What did Somerset do regarding the issue of enclosure

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Established commissions under John Hales to investigate enclosure

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When did Enclosure get really bad

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1548-49

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What happened between 1548-49

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Enclosure got really bad

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What was the role of John Hales?

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Run commissions which was set up by Protector Somerset

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Who refused to cooperate with Hales?

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Landowners

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How did landowners react to Hales

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Refused to cooperate

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12
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What did Somerset issue to stop enclosure

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Order several proclamations

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From Hales report what did Somerset do?

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Issued several proclamations

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14
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How much did Somerset spend on continuing Henrys wars

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£1,356,000

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Did Somerset spend £1,356,000 on

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Continuing Henry’s wars

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16
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How much crown lands did Somerset sell?

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£800,000

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17
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How did Somerset make £800,000

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Selling crown lands

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18
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How much did Somerset make £50,000 a year?

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Borrowing

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How much did maintaining the royal household cost

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£50,000

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What did Somerset neeed £50,000 for

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Maintaining the Royal household

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21
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Why was the financial crisis not Somerset fault

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Financial crisis started from Henry

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22
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When did inflation start?

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1500

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When did inflation accelerate?

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1540s

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What was the inflation at 1546?

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Prices were 150% higher than they had been in 1508

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What year was the inflation rate 150% since 1508?
1546
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What caused inflation?
Debasement of the coinage in order to fund wars with Scotland and France by Henry and Somerset
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What was the impact of debasing the coinage
Inflation
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What did the population increase mean
Increased demand for the same quantity of food
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What increased demand for food
Increased population
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What happened to the price of grain?
Increased faster than other commodities because large landowners found it more profitable to produce wool for European market rather than food for domestic consumption
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What was the size of the population in 1525
2.3 million
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What was the size of the population in 1551
3 million
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What was the population increase between 1525 to 1551
0.7 million
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How did the structure of the population change
More younger children were born
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What did the population having more children mean?
People who could not contribute to the production of food
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What did the rapid population growth and inflation lead to?
Increasing poverty as wages failed to keep up with the prices throughout the period
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How many failed harvests were there between 1547-58?
6
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Between which period were there 6 failed harvests?
1547-58
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Why did the dissolution of monasteries cause problems for the poor?
Previously provided relief to poor families for starving families
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What did a depression in the cloth trade lead to
Further unemployment
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What did landlords do to exacerbate the hard times
Passed on the effects of the economic hard times to the peasantry by rapidly increasing rents (rack renting)
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When did the vagrancy act happen
1547
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What did the rise in poverty cause
Increase in crime which made the government worry about public order
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What did the poor law of 1536 recognise
Able-bodied poor people are genuinely finding it hard to get a job
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What law recognised That it was actually hard to find a job
Poor law of 1536
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What did the Vagarancy Act of1547 paint the poor as?
Turned them into criminals
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What law turned the poor into criminals?
Vagrancy Act 1547
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What did the vagrancy Act state for unemployed people?
Any able-bodied person out of work for more than three days was to be branded with a V and sold into slavery for two years
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What did the Vagrancy act say for the children of the unemployed?
They could be taken away from their parents and sent to work as apprentices in useful occupations
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What was the reaction to the vagrancy act of 1547?
Very unpopular and many authorities refused to impose it
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What did the vagrancy act of 1547 propose for the disabled
Housing and collections
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When were the public order proclamations
1548
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What did the public order proclamations of 1548 show about the government?
They cared more for maintaining law and order rather than solving economic issues
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What was released in 1548
Public order proclamation
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Under the public proclamations of 1548, what became illegal?
Spread rumours
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Under what laws it made forbidden to spread rumours
Public order proclamations 1548
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What happened to people found guilty of any offences in the public order proclamations of 1548
They were sent to work rowing on galleys
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What did the public order proclamations of 1548 show about the population
Repressive laws show that government realised things were getting out of hand

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