Mary I

• religious impact on society

  • restoration of catholicism was quite popular
  • strong protestant minority in london against this = foreign protestants asked to leave
  • clergy who married were deprived off livings
  • debates over act of repeal which restored heresy laws
• economic impact on society

  • bad harvests and plague
  • population growth = inflation
  • debasement of the coinage made inflation even worse
  • harvests failure 1555 and 1556
  • high taxation to pay for war against france
  • social distress
  • 1556-8 re-coinage plans
  • 1555 poor law = beggars to wear badges
  • encouraged crop farming
  • discouraged moving industries to countryside to reduce urban unemployment