Henry VII government

• What were the Courts and councils under Henry 7th?

  - Court

  - Royal court

  - The great council

  - Privy council

  - council learned
• What was the great council?

  An occasional body for war national security and rebellion
• What was the Privy Council?

  Henry's most intimate and trusted advisors, harder for those he didn't like to regain support
• What was The royal court?


  Centre of government, distributed reward and status and support of king could be obtained
• What was Court?


  No established rules, importance depended on its members
• What was the Council learned?

  Offshoot of the great council, lawyers and administrators who bypassed the legal system to grant revenue
• When was the Council Learned established?

  1495
• Who were part of the Council Learned?

  Reynold Bray

  Richard Epsom

  Edmund Dudley
• When did the hatred for Council Learned take place?

  When Dudley and Epsom took over
• What legal body did the Council Learned operate without?

  A judy
• Why was the absence of a Jury in the Council Learned significant?

  No opposing body to make a verdict, meant they could bypass law to grant Henry
• How many cases did Dudley confess to, of illegally extracting money?

  84
• What were the cases that Dudley confessed to?

  Fabricated Feudal dues ( tax )
• Henry's first two parliaments

  Acts of attainder
• When and who established council learned

  Bray in 1502
• What did the council learned do

  Oversaw Henry's financial income
• Income dropped to ____ during Henry's early reign?

  £12000 per year
• Why was crown income low for the start of his reign

  He used the exchequer system
• Revert to Chamber

  1492
• Other forms of income

  justice of peace profit, French pension (1492), customs revenue
• When did Henry VII establish the council learned?

  1495
• Who were part of the Council Learned in Law?

  Epsom and Dudley
• How many accounts of illegal claims did Epsom admit to?

  88
• How many nobles had been placed under bonds or recognisances by Henry VII?

  47/62
• How many royal councillors was there in Henry VII's reign?

  250
• What was attendance at the Royal Council totalled at?

  40 members
• What percentage of Henry's council was made up of clerics?

  50%
• Who was Henry's unofficial adviser in government?

  Margaret Beaufort
• When did Henry remodel the chamber into the privy chamber?

  1495
• Why did Henry remodel into the Privy chamber?

  As sir William Stanley had betrayed him in the Warbeck plot
• What is a personal monarchy?


  a system in which a person's power was determined by his relationship with the monarch
• How many times a year did JPs meet ?

  4x a year
• How many acts of attainder did Henry pass during his reign?

  138
• What percentage of the kings council was made up of clerics?

  50%
• When was the Act of Resumption?

  1486
• What was the Act of Resumption?

  It returned to the Crown all lands which had been given away since 1455
• What did the council of general surveyors do?

  Orbited revenue from crown lands
• How many JPs were there in each county?

  18
• How much was raised in taxes for war with Brittany?

  £100,000
• Who was Lord John Fitzwater?