domestic policy (legal reforms)

• 120 cases a year in Court of the star chamber, compared to 12 under Henry 7
• 540 cases heard in the court of chaNcery however favoured poorer backgrounds (due to Wolsey's)
• Wolsey established court of requests against enclosures, no fee for solicitors
• 1517 enquiry into enclosures showed Wolsey addressing poor
• Wolsey took bribes, enriched himself and took out vendettas on people
• Amya's Paulet who had Wolsey put in stocks when he started as priest
• gap between nobility deepens as law favoured poor
• inquiry to enclosures shut in 1523; growing opposition from landowners
• long term failure as backlog of cases: no law reform and chaos in 1529