INCLASS-Government Facts-Northumberland

Question 1

Who enforced stricter methods of accounting?

Answer 1

Winchester

Question 2

What was a privy coffer?

Answer 2

this was an emergency household fund

Question 3

Although Northumberland aimed to reduce expenditure what was unrealistic to expect?

Answer 3

for a mid sixteenth century king to “live within his means”

Question 4

Who did Northumberland appoint to the task of reforming finances in feb 1550?

Answer 4

William Paulet, the Marquis of Winchester

Question 5

What role was given to William Paulet, the Marquis of Winchester in feb 1550

Answer 5

Lord treasurer

Question 6

Bologonge was returned to France for how much?

Answer 6

£133,333

Question 7

What saw drastic reduction under crown finance?

Answer 7

military and household expenditure

Question 8

What did debts in 1550 stand at in comparison to £180,000 in 1553?

Answer 8

£300,000

Question 9

What did debts in 1553 stand at in comparison to £300,000 in 1550?

Answer 9

£180,000

Question 10

What was a disadvantage and advantage of selling crown lands and Chantry lands?

Answer 10

this raised £200,000 but weakened crown finance in the long term

Question 11

How much extra ordinary parliamentary finance did Northumberland raise?

Answer 11

£336,000

Question 12

How much in debts did Northumberland manage to claw back?

Answer 12

£16,000

Question 13

What were 4 methods used by northumberland to increase crown finance?

Answer 13

• sale of Crown and Chantry lands
• extraordinary finance
• debts claimed back
• borrowed from Europe

Question 14

What markets had the crown borrowed money from, which later they had to return after a collapse?

Answer 14

Antwerp markets

Question 15

Who did Northumberland authorise to pay off royal debts whom did a very good job?

Answer 15

Sir Thomas Gresham

Question 16

Sir Thomas Gresham was appointed to pay off royal debts and did a very good job and managed to renegotiate the loans at a reasonable ___% rate?

Answer 16

12%

Question 17

What skill from Sir Thomas Gresham benefitted the crown?

Answer 17

his skill at keeping the exchange rate up on English currency

Question 18

Why did Northumberland introduce new Treason Laws in 1550?

Answer 18

in order to keep control by traditional means in order to prevent the 1549 uprisings

Question 19

What did the new Treason Laws 1550 reinstate?

Answer 19

censorship

Question 20

Northumberland as well as the treason laws used the nobility to maintain social order, how did he do this?

Answer 20

through using trusted nobles to keep order using their retainers

Question 21

IN what year did Northumberland’s government take action to control stocks of grain in order to relieve the crisis caused by the successive harvest failures?

Answer 21

1551

Question 22

What policy did Northumberland not continue from Somerset?

Answer 22

his anti-enclosure policy

Question 23

What tax did Northumberland repeal in 1550?

Answer 23

the sheep tax

Question 24

Instead of attempting new measures to stop enclosures what did Northumberland do which was accepted by the nobles and was rarely enforced?

Answer 24

he enforced existing anti enclosures legislation

Question 25

What act was repealed under Northumberland?

Answer 25

Vagrancy Act of 1547

Question 26

What were issued in 1550 in order to reduce the value of the coinage and 1551 to end debasement?

Answer 26

proclamations

Question 27

What year were proclamations issued in order to reduce the value of coinage?

Answer 27

1550

Question 28

Why was proclamations to end of debasement not until 1551?

Answer 28

as Northumberland needed cash to try to offset Crown’s debt issues

Question 29

What year did Northumberland fix the silver content in the coins to the level it had been in 1527?

Answer 29

1552

Question 30

What did Northumberland do in 1552?

Answer 30

he fixed the silver content in the coins to the level it had been in 1527

Question 31

What caused further economic problems especially in the cloth trade in 1551-52?

Answer 31

the Antwerp market

Question 32

In order for his own political survival what did Northumberland do?

Answer 32

he extended the use of the privy council

Question 33

What have revisionists said about Northumberland in regards to the extended use of the Privy Council?

Answer 33

that his political genius lay in his ability to recognise that his own political survival depended on his control of the council

Question 34

What did Northumberland make himself so that he could have the power to fix the agendas of the meetings and bar councillors who may have opposed him?

Answer 34

Lord President of the Council

Question 35

What did Northumberland’s self appointed role as Lord President of the Council allow him to do?

Answer 35

it allowed him to fix the agendas of the meeting and to bar councillors who may have opposed him

Question 36

What has historian Dale Hoak his reform of the Privy Council marked?

Answer 36

marked the revival of government that had not really been held since the reformation

Question 37

Who said that the reform of the Privy Council marked the revival of government that had not really been held since the reformation

Answer 37

Dale Hoak- historian

Question 38

At first, what was Northumberland’s style of government driven by?

Answer 38

the need for self preservation as he was a the heart of the plot to remove Somerset

Question 39

What position did Northumberland give his ally Sir John Gates?

Answer 39

vice chamberlain

Question 40

What did Sir John Gates’ position as Vice Chamberlain allow him to do?

Answer 40

to control the dry stamp