Government

• Parliament

  • made up of house of commons (2 representatives for each town and Oxford and Cambridge)
  • and house of lords: temporal, made of of peerage; spiritual, made up of clergy
  • met 7 times in 24 years
  • put through acts of attainder (an act that takes a family's right to inherit land 138 were passed and 46 reversed) and granted extraordinary revenue (extra money through taxation)
• Church

  • papal support for henry and elizabeth of york's marriage
  • henry was pious himself
  • had its own legal system that could've undermined henry
  • agreed to do away with sanctuary after warbeck tried to use it to escape his treason charge
• Court and Household

  • centre of government because henry ruled with a personal monarchy
  • the household proper looked after the monarch
  • the court acted as a group for henry to show of kingly extravagance to and practice the carrot and stick method on
  • the lord chamberlain was his stepdad lord stanley, whos later involvement with warbeck led to the creation of the privy chamber
• what is praemunire?

  placing a foreign power's authority above the king
• King's Council

  • made up of nobles, clergymen and laymen
  • met in Privy Chamber
  • advised, made legal judgements and administered the realm
  • there were three types: noblility, clergymen like Richard Fox and laymen (gentry or lawyers) like Sir Reginald Bray and Edmund Dudley
  • closest and most trusted advisors were mostly family like his mum Margeret Beaufort and uncle Jasper Tudor
• Local Government

  • used Justices of the Peace to keep order locally in the countryside
  • used magnates to oversee large areas- Northumberland in Yorkshhire and Northeast, Stanleys in the Northwest
  • restored the council of wales under Jasper
  • failed to reduce irish independence because of kildare
• Council Learned in Law

  • developed during the second half of the reign by Sir Reginald Bray (later replaced by Edmund Dudley) and Richard Empson
  • used to gather revenue for the crown
  • utilised the king's prerogative rights (rights excersised without parlimentary consent) and bonds (written agreement to pay money if a promise is broken) & recognisances (formal acknowledgement of debt)