English society

• How many people in nobility?

  50-60 who were entitled to sit in the house of Lords
• Restriction of nobilities power in 1487


  limited their power by restricting the practice by which wealthy magnates recruited knights and gentlemen (retainers).
• How much of the population did the nobility and gentry make up?

  Around 1%
• Yorkshire Rebellion


  1489

  sparked by resentment of taxation to finance campaign in Brittany
• Cornish rebellion


  1497

  sparked by resentment of taxation to finance campaign against Scotland

  involved 15,000 and reached Blackheath
• when did Henry vii promis not to raise money by extraordinary revenue any more

  1504
• how did Londoners and northerners see each other?


  Londoners saw northerners as less refined and northerners envy southern wealth
• Bonds and recognisances evidence

  between 1485 and 1509, 36 out of 62 noble families have bonds and/or recognisances to Henry