The Maintenance Of Political Stability: Tudor Policies - Continuity And Change

Question 1

What are examples of fines on nobles who ignored the law under King Henry VII?

Answer 1

Lord Burgavenny was finned £71,000 and Sir James Stanley £245,000 in 1506

Question 2

Who did King Henry VIII get retainers from to counter the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Answer 2

700 from Norfolk and Lord Ferrers provided 1000 men

Question 3

How many licences for retainers did Mary issue?

Answer 3

Over 2000

Question 4

How many Acts of attainder did King Henry VII pass?

Answer 4

138 Acts, with only a few reversed

Question 5

How many of the English nobility and gentry were at the king’s mercy by 1509?

Answer 5

2/3

Question 6

How many of his subjects did King Henry VII ennoble?

Answer 6

4, 2 of whom were relatives, with the overall number of peers falling from 20 to 10

Question 7

How much of the peers was King Henry VIII responsible for creating by 1547?

Answer 7

1/2

Question 8

When was itinerant preachers banned under Edward?

Answer 8

September 1548

Question 9

Under Edward when was censorship introduced to prevent the printing of radical tracts, sermons and ballads?

Answer 9

1549

Question 10

What did Mary and her council encourage some recalcitrant Protestant to do?

Answer 10

Emigrate rather than spend opposition internally

Question 11

What was the Elizabethan governments response to potential Catholic conspiracies after the excommunication of 1570?

Answer 11

Counties know to favour Catholic beliefs and their JPs systematically remodelled
Assize judges were ordered to readminister the oath of supremacy to all JPs in 1579
Walsingham’s agents alerted the Privy Council to plots linked to Mary Stuart

Question 12

What laws in 1571 made it clear that Catholics had to choose between the obeying the queen or obeying the pope?

Answer 12

Anti-Catholic penal laws

Question 13

Why was Elizabethan Protestantism unpopular?

Answer 13

It was to academic and unattractive to must moral people who disliked long sermons and many would rather play football, hunt or go to the pub on Sunday

Question 14

What issue did every Tudor government legislate against?

Answer 14

Enclosure

Question 15

How many landlords and corporations did Wolsey charge with unlawful enclosure?

Answer 15

264

Question 16

At what rate did harvests failed in Tudor England?

Answer 16

1 of every 4

Question 17

When were Acts passed to limit the export of grain and encourage imports?

Answer 17

1534, 1555, 1559, 1563, 1571 and 1593

Question 18

What towns sold stockpiled corn on the cheap to the poor at times of dearth?

Answer 18

Norwich, London and Ipswich

Question 19

What did Mary’s government pass in 1555 to maintain a good standard of cloth work?

Answer 19

Laws designed to force weavers to join guilds

Question 20

What did the Statue of Artificers declare in 1563?

Answer 20

No one could practise a craft without first completing a 7 year apprenticeship
Workers and servants could not be hired for less than a year
Masters were not allowed to dismiss a servant nor servants eave their employment without good reason
JPs must set maximum wage rates for every occupation
All unemployed people aged between 12 and 60 were found work in their parish, men in agriculture and women in domestic service

Question 21

In which year was an Act made that recognised the ‘deserving poor’?

Answer 21

1572