social discontent and rebellions

• how were living conditions for the poor changing?

  appeared to be improving
• how did real wages change?

  seems to have increased
• what was becoming more evident towards the end of the 15th century?

  inflationary pressures
• what does evidence point to in the 1490s?


  a slight increase in real wages
• what happened by the following decade?


  the situation seemed to have reversed
• how does Henry compare to other Tudors?

  doesn't seem to have been much social discontent
• why does Henry's reign seem to be more calm than others?

  England seems to have avoided the food crises which affected other countries
• historians views: John Guy

  'Tudor England's greatest success was its ability to feed itself'
• what rebellions took place?

  Yorkshire (1489) and Cornwall (1497)
• main catalyst for rebellion

  taxation