Section B

• Wolsey appointed Chancellor in 1515
• Wolsey was also Archbishop of York and a Cardinal and Papal Legate
• reasons for wolseys rise to power?

  -son of a butcher from Ipsiwich

  -excellent education at Oxford

  -big break in 1512 when he organised an army for Henry for war with france
• wolsey began to be referred to as Alter Rex (second king)
• Wolseys reforms: Justice

  -increased courts work rate from 12 to 120 cases a year

  -oversaw cases in person

  -encouraged poor people to being cases to court
• Wolseys reforms: Finance

  -improved taxation with subsidy (more income=more tax)

  -between 1513 and 1516 subsidy raised £170,000 while original system of 15ths and 10ths raised £90,000

  -heavy tax rates unpopular
• wolseys reforms: enclosures

  -1517 enquiry into enclosed land led to over 260 court cases against landowners

  -1523 angry landowners forced wolsey to stop investigations
• Eltham Ordinances:

  -sick servants were laid off

  -set meal times

  -dogs banned

  -reduced Gentlemen of the Chamber from 12 to 6
• Amicable Grant:

  -Henry needed money to invade france in 1525

  -direct tax without approval of parliament

  -demanded clergy pay ⅓ of income and laity pay ⅙ of income in tax in just 10 weeks
• Amicable Grant consequences:

  -people were angry and refused to pay

  -revolt in Suffolk in 1525 (first rebellion in Henry's reign)

  -Henry claimed to be unaware

  -wolsey humiliated and unpopularity increased

  -marked beginning of end for Wolsey