Henry VIII - Cromwell

Question 1

First successful peacetime subsidy

Answer 1

1532

Question 2

Calais absorbed into the English legal system

Answer 2

1536

Question 3

Injunctions (dates)

Answer 3

1536 and 1538

Question 4

Act of Union

Answer 4

1536 - Wales absorbed into the English legal system

Question 5

Council of the North reorganised

Answer 5

1536 - made more efficient

Question 6

Act of Precedence

Answer 6

Cromwell placed his position as secretary higher on the secular hierarchy and the scope of his role

Question 7

Council of the West established

Answer 7

1539

Question 8

Improvement of the Privy Council

Answer 8

• 1536
• Consisted of around 20 nobles
• Fixed membership

To limit wider influences on Henry

Question 9

New courts established

Answer 9

• Court of Augmentations
• Court of Wards
• Court of First Fruits and Tenths

Question 10

Omnicompetence of Statute

Answer 10

• The idea that the highest authority in the Kingdom is when the monarchs will is enacted by an act of Parliament
• Created through the Reformation Parliament