Society

• How many people made up peerage

  50 to 60
• Henry only trusted Lancastrians like

  Earl of Oxford
• through Bastard feudalism, wealth magnets recruited who?

  knights and gentlemen to serve them
• what did Henry use to control nobility?

  bonds and recognisances
• when were peers and MOs required to take oath against retaining

  1486
• when was the law against retaining passed

  1487
• the law against retaining was reinforced by act passed in 1504 which meant 


  retaining lisence only granted by king
• how many knights and peers were there in 1490?

  375
• what percentage of the country’s land did knights own ?

  15-20%
• who’s an example of a knight or peer

  Sir Reginald Bray
• what churchmen could sit in HofL?

  Bishops and abbots
• Henry appointed bishops who had

  legal training
• low pop from Black Death meant?

  low demand for land and drop in land value
• who exercised considerable influence with wealthy merchants

  lawyers
• when was the Yorkshire rebellion 


  1489
• what were the causes of the Yorkshire rebellion ?


  resentment against taxation passed in 1489 to finance forces in Brittany
• his much did Parliament give Henry to lay for involvement in Brittany

  £100,000
• how much did the raised income tax generate

  £27,000
• Who raised the issues caused by the increase in taxation to the king

  Henry Percy (Earl of Northumberland)
• When was Henry Percy murdered

  April 1489
• who defeated the rebels

  Earl of Surrey
• Henry travelled north to do what?

  Issue a pardon to prisoners
• When was the Cornish rebellion 


  1497
• What was the reason for the Cornish rebellion

  Henry’s demand for extraordinary revenue for campaign against Scotland to defeat Warbeck and Cornwall independant from rest of England so didn’t want to pay
• when did rebels reach london

  16th June
• how many rebels were there

  15000
• when was the rebellion put down

  22nd June
• Who did Henry withdraw from Scottish border to put down rebellion

  Lord Daubeney
• 25,000 men defeated Cornish killing how many Cornish rebels?


  1000
• who was a rebel leader that was executed

  Lord Audley