Economy yes

• exports of cloth what...

  doubled
• broadcloths and cheaper fabrics like kersey were exported through where to where

  London to Antwerp to Central Europe
• negative impact of growth of London cloth trade

  on Bristol and east-coast ports like Hull and Boston
• which port enjoyed a boom in trade with Venice

  Southampton
• what did foreign merchants controlled much of until 1550s

  cloth trade
• name places where the cloth industry grew

  west riding of Yorkshire

  East Anglia, Suffolk

  Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Devon (west country)
• wine imports increased meaning...

  increased spending power of prosperous classes
• where was lead mining

  high Pennines
• How many blast furnaces were there by the middle of the century?

  26
• where were the blast furnaces mainly and what did they do

  increased iron ore in Weald of Sussex and Kent
• example of profiting from cloth trade

  William Stumpe became MP for Malmesbury, Wiltshire, high sheriff, wealthy landowner, beneficiary from the dissolution
• from what year did the population increase

  1525
• what happened to the mortality rate

  decreased
• when was the coinage first debased

  1526
• when did debasement create a short-term artificial boom due to more coinagein circulation

  1544-46
• from what decade did agricultural prices rise and farming incomes increased

  1520s
• why did farming incomes rise

  engrossing (joining farms together)

  enclosure (increased farm size)

  new agricultural techniques - crop rotation, breeding of superior cattle + sheep
• Nowich's taxable wealth 1525


  £749
• bad harvest years

  1520, 27, 35, 45
• increase in food prices

  116 (1511-20)

  217 (1540-47)

  (100=1451-75)
• what happened to real wages

  declined (esp. bcos of debasement and inflation)
• increase in industrial prices

  102 (1511-20) to 127 (1541-50)
• evidence of urban poverty

  1/2 pop. of Coventry and 2/3 of Yarmouth had no personal wealth
• how many migrated to London each year

  5000
• enclosure commission

  1517
• how many were found to have enclosed illegally

  188
• when did opposition from parliament to the enclosure commission force Wolsey to suspend investigations of enclosure

  1523

  suspend until 1526
• where was enclosure the most

  east midlands
• bulk of damage by enclosure and conversion of land from tillage to pasture occurred when

  before 1485
• when did legislation try to limit sheep ownership and engrossing

  1534 (had little effect)
• impact of population growth

  was the underlying cause of economic distress

  strain on food supplies

  wages stagnating due to plentiful cheap labour
• who were the beneficiaries of population growth

  wealthier farmers and landowners

  agricultural prices rose (higher demand) income from farming increased
• negative effects of population growth and landowners benefitting from it

  rich became richer, poor became poorer

  society more polarised

  rich thought poor were just lazy, increase in stern measures against vagrancy and begging
• good harvest years

  1509, 1537, 1547
• poor harvest in 1527 and a ...

  trade embargo on Burgundian trade
• where were the riots of 1528

  south east and west England and East Anglia