Tudor Revolution Flashcards
(24 cards)
Continuity of Parliament
used for finance, HoL was dominant, still extension of noble power, royal prerogative remained
Changes to Peers
increased to 55 by 1534, making clergy a minority
change to boroughs
14 new ones elected MPs
number of Parliamentary sessions
1509-31 11 1532-40 10
unprecedented parliamentary session
lasted 7 years 1529-36
role of Parliament at by 1530s
only thing that could enforce henry’s will, statute law represented ultimate authority in England
finance system
informal household system with no regulations changed to bureaucratic system with regulated departments, people appointed on merit not patronage
Privy Council
informal council of 70-90 members replaced by formal privy council. Elite group of 20ish trusted permanent councillors assumed responsibility for running the govt
similarities with local govt
depended on JPs and powerful noble landowners. Had Councils of North, West and Wales
Act of Union
1536 reorganised local govt in border areas of England and Wales
Act of Liberties and Franchises
1536 removed and restricted special power exercised by regional nobles
Changes to local govt
Wales divided into shires like England (Franchises Act 1536), Welsh given representation in Parliament, Council of Wales bureaucratised and given statute authority to govern Wales
reversal of Henry VIIs attainders
cost around £15,000 from landed income 1509-1515
Annual income
1500-20 £41,000 | £32,000 by 1530s
Act of Resumption
1515 collecting debts, returning some lands to the Crown, reducing garrisons at Tournai, raised £10,000
Subsidy Act
1534 justified tax on grounds of peace not war £406,000 1535-40
Annates income
£42,000 annually
Dissolution of monasteries finance
worth £50,000 annually in rents but Henry sold off many lands so brought £38,000 1537
centralisation
by 1540 England was more centralised than it had ever been.
Council of the North was re-constructed 1536, meant it was more directly dependent on Kings Council in London
Increase in number of bills
last 12 parliamentary sessions passed upwards of 500 bills that received royal assent, and many others that didn’t
New departments of finance
Court of First Fruits and Tenths
Court of Augmentation
administered Kings income and assets from the Church
Staffed mostly by professionally trained administrators
Cromwells part in formation of Privy Council
Some claim it was structured along lines prefigured by Wolsey in his Eltham Ordinances
Though Wolsey’s chief advisor at the time was Cromwell
Act of Liberties and Franchises
1536 Removed and restricted the special powers exercised by regional nobles in areas of England like Durham
Subsidy Act
1534 remarkable because it justified taxation on grounds of peace not war and yielded £406,000 between 1535-40
