the changing role of justices of the peace

Question 1

JP Benefits:

Answer 1

Better management of law and order and more effective handling of the problems of vagrancy and poverty

Question 2

What did Henry VII make the JP’s responsible for?

Answer 2

Dealing with over-powerful nobles

Question 3

By the 1540s, population growth and price rises did what?

Answer 3

Increased the number of vagrants and beggars

Question 4

How did the government respond to the increased number of vagrants and beggars?

Answer 4

Increasing the powers of the JPs to deal with local order

Question 5

How did the power of JPs increase in 1552?

Answer 5

Given the power to licence alehouses which were considered to be a particular cause of social unrest

Question 6

How were JPs given power under the Statute of Artificers?

Answer 6

JPs were able to ensure that everyone who was able to work was made to do so

Question 7

When was the Statute of Artificiers?

Answer 7

1563

Question 8

Religious powers of JPs:

Answer 8

Could enforce the religious changes which the government had enacted through parliament

Question 9

Why was having JPs have religious control vital?

Answer 9

For regions that remained loyal to Catholicism such as the North and the South West

Question 10

Status of JPs:

Answer 10

Drawn from the local gentry and nobility and so they had the status in local society to ensure that the central government’s policies were enforced effectively

Question 11

How successful were JPs in controlling religion:

Answer 11

There were declining levels of rebellions in England

Question 12

After 1569…

Answer 12

…there were no more popular rebellions in England

Question 13

1590s

Answer 13

Social and economic crisis but not widespread unrest

Question 14

JP judgement: (3)

Answer 14

• Better control of local order
• Reduced the amount of social tension
• Created better order in local order

Question 15

How many acts of parliament that placed responsibility on JPS by 1603?

Answer 15

309