Government

• conciliar government


  1509-1514
• court of chancery


  uphold fair justice, dealing with problems relating to enclosure, contracts and land left in wills.

  Too popular so justice was slow
• court of star chamber


  established in 1487. Extended the use from 1516 to increase cheap and fair justice.

  Too successful, so set up a series of overflow tribunals
• Amicable Grant 1525


  Wolsey attempted to raise unparliamentary taxation to fund the campaign in France
• Eltham Ordinances 1526


  Attempt to reform the finances of the privy council by reducing royal household expenditure, privy chamber gentlemen and remove Henry's groom of the stool
• Fall of Wolsey


  1529-result of kings great matter failure
• Clergy collectively accused of praemunire and fined


  1531
• Act in Conditional Restraint of annates and submission of the clergy


  1532
• supplication against the ordinaries

  1532

  increased anti-clerical pressure in the house of commons
• reformation parliament


  1529-1536
• Acts of parliament under Cromwell

  Act in restraint of appeals (imperial jurisdiction)

  Act of succession (void marriage with Catherine)

  Act of supremacy

  Act of Treason
• Fall of Cromwell


  July 1540 executed
• Henry viii died

  28 Jan 1547
• The Act in Restraint of Appeals


  1533

  Gave the king imperial jurisdiction and declared that appeals couldn't be made to the Pope
• The Act of Supremacy


  1534 Declared the king to be head of the English church rather than the Pope
• The Treason Act


  1534

  treason was committed by the spoken word as well as by a deed or writing