financial administration

• as committees of the council emerged, the council learned dealt with feudal rights and collecting revenues, especially managing bonds and recognisances.
• H7 began taking a direct personal interest in the state of national finances. at the beginning of his reign, finances were dealt with by the treasury and the exchequer, but they were clumsy and inefficient. from 1487 onwards, the administration of finance became controlled by the Privy Chamber
• H7 established a post of Surveyor of the King's Wards to investigate cases of money owed to him from wardship and a court of audit.