Wolsey - church & state

Question 1

Background of Thomas Wolsey

Answer 1

-son of a Butcher
-Promoted to Royal Almoner by Bishop Fox
-1512 organised Fr expedition

Question 2

Rise to High Office

Answer 2

-1513 Dean of York and Bishop of Tornai
-1514 Archbishop of York and Bishop of Lincoln
-1515 Made Cardinal and Lord Chancellor
-1518 Papal Legate
-1524 Legatus a latere

Question 3

What was said about Wolsey’s personality?

Answer 3

‘The cardinal was the first person who rules’
Venetian ambassador 1519

Question 4

Who was the Duke of Buckingham?

Answer 4

Only Duke by the end of H8’s reign

Question 5

What happened to the Duke of Buckingham?

Answer 5

Imprisoned 1521

Question 6

What happened to Amyas Paulet?

Answer 6

Wolsey forced him to go to Court of Chancery for 5 years so he was financially ruined

Question 7

Why had anticlericalism increased?

Answer 7

-Printing was invented 1476
-Martin Luther 95 thesis in 1517

Question 8

Wolsey’s church reform?

Answer 8

-Papal permission for monastic reform to fund religious learning
-1528 monasteries with >6 were dissolved and >12 amalgamated
-1521 burning of Lutheran texts after and ‘defence of 7 sacraments’

Question 9

What government reform was passed?

Answer 9

Eltham ordinances

Question 10

What did the Eltham ordinance do?

Answer 10

Organise chaotic finances

Question 11

Legal reforms

Answer 11

-Star chamber: increased to 120 cases a year and made him a ‘friend to the poor’
-Court of Requests: met in Whitehall > following king. so cheaper

Question 12

Financial reform

Answer 12

-1522 national survey
-1523 HofC passed subsidiary based on income>property

Question 13

Amicable Grant

Answer 13

1525
Laity = 1/4 to 1/10
Clergy = 1/3
10 weeks
Shut down bc widespread resistance

Question 14

Economic reform

Answer 14

-1517 national enquiry on enclosure
-legal cases drawn w/o permission
-1523 suspended
-1526 restarted

-1526 debased coinage