Government and Domestic Policy

• Richard III was the last Yorkist King, he had no legitimate children so his death meant that there were no more Yorkists to claim the throne.
• What was the Councils role

  Advised the king and made legal judgements and was a permanent body
• who was part of the Council?

  Sir Reginald Bray
• how often did the Great Council meet (made up of HofC and HofL members) during reign

  5 times
• what was the Council Learned in Law?


  was a court of law and those summoned had no chance of appeal
• who were the 2 most feared individuals in the Council Learned in law

  Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley
• both were removed after Henry’s reign and executed after Henry’s reign, this showed what?

  how hated their financial control was
• What was the role of the household proper

  Looked after king and court and was supervised by Lord Stewart
• who presided over the chamber

  the Lord Chamberlain Sir William Stanley until 1495 when he showed support for Warbeck
• what was parliaments role

  pass laws, grant taxation and extraordinary revenue
• Henry called 7 parliaments in his reign but how many in his last 14yrs?

  2
• What was the justices of the Peace role ?

  Maintained order in the countryside and met 4 times a year, were mostly local gentry
• what was the bonds and recognises policy?

  Payments made as guarantee of good behaviour but nobles pay if they wernt loyal
• between 1485 and 1509 how many out of 62 noble families gave bonds or recognises to Henry 


  36
• who agreed they’d pay £100,000 to Henry if they didn’t show good behaviour

  the Marques of Dorset
• how many noble families were under some kind of financial threat

  46
• how much income was Henry receiving at beginning of his reign from crown lands

  £12,000 a year
• in 1492 Henry reverted back to the Edwardian system (the Chamber) to collect income from crown lands, how much did this make him by the end of his reign ?


  £42,000
• the crown gained revenue from wardship, what is this?

  crown profit gained from property held by a minor
• Parliament granted a feudal aid in 1504, what was this?

  crown could impose tax on marriage of their eldest daughter
• How much did tonnage and poundage revenue increase

  From £34,000 to £38,000
• How much did the French pay Henry annually from the Treaty of Etables 1492


  £5000
• how much in total did Henry recieve from extraordinary taxation

  £400,000