Economy

• cloth exports by England

  70%
• short term impact of debasement of coinage

  artificial boom in 1544-46
• long term impact of debasement of coinage


  inflation and fall in real wages by the end of his reign
• Enclosure commission


  established by Wolsey in 1517 leading to prosecutions for enclosure and engrossing
• bad harvests


  1520-21 and 1527-29
• Robert Thorne


  Bristol trader with continued involvement in Iceland and Newfoundland fishery
• recorded wealth in Coventry


  over half recorded to have no personal wealth
• recorded wealth in Yarmouth

  1/3 recorded to have no personal wealth
• areas with the greatest growth in the cloth industry


  West Ridings of Yorkshire

  East Anglia

  West country