Year Government Finance Foreign Policy Other
1485 First parliament 7th November Custom duties of tonnage and Singed a one-year Navigation Act, forbade
Lords and commons swore not poundage truce with France later English merchants
to illegally retain Seized lands of Yorkist extended to 1489 loading goods onto
JP’s could arrest poachers and Custom duties £33,000 foreign ships.
hunters Battle of Bosworth 22
11 knighthoods at the battle August
field Thomas Stanley 4,000
men later became Lord
Stanley, Earl of Derby
1486 Act of Resumptions Three-year truce with Married Elizabeth of York
Scotland 18th January, crowned
Commercial treaty Queen on 25th November
signed with Brittany Birth of Prince Arthur 20th
September
First progress
1487 JP’s could grant bail Feudal dues income £350 The Brenton Crisis Limited export of wool
Star Chamber Act lawless France invaded
manner Brittany
1488 James III died
1489 Passed legislation against Wardship Earl of Treaty of Redon send Navigation Acts
enclosure Northumberland’s 10-year-old 6,000 troops, 12,000 Earl of Northumberland
Calls Parliament for son men dies Yorkshire rebellion
extraordinary revenue for Treaty of Medina del Earl of Suffolk sent to
Brittany £30,000/£100,000 Campo equal trading York (Edmund de la pole)
rights, fixed custom
duties
1491 Parliament agrees to raise Benevolences raised £48,500 for War costed £108,000
taxes for war against France Breton Army
£9,000 from the City of London
for the Breton Crisis
1492 Royal finances from the Court 745,000 crowns payed by 50,000 Henry invaded
of the Exchequer to his crowns a year from France northern France
Chamber Treaty of Étaples
reduce trade
restrictions
1493 Bonds earning Henry £3,000.
1494 Sir Edward Poynings
appointed as Lord Deputy of
Ireland
Poynings’ Law creating English
law in Ireland, stopped the
Irish parliament from doing
anything without consent
1495 Council Learned in Law royal William Stanley is
debt collectors executed
JP’s could vet juries Jasper Tudor dies
Creation of Privy Chamber
1485 First parliament 7th November Custom duties of tonnage and Singed a one-year Navigation Act, forbade
Lords and commons swore not poundage truce with France later English merchants
to illegally retain Seized lands of Yorkist extended to 1489 loading goods onto
JP’s could arrest poachers and Custom duties £33,000 foreign ships.
hunters Battle of Bosworth 22
11 knighthoods at the battle August
field Thomas Stanley 4,000
men later became Lord
Stanley, Earl of Derby
1486 Act of Resumptions Three-year truce with Married Elizabeth of York
Scotland 18th January, crowned
Commercial treaty Queen on 25th November
signed with Brittany Birth of Prince Arthur 20th
September
First progress
1487 JP’s could grant bail Feudal dues income £350 The Brenton Crisis Limited export of wool
Star Chamber Act lawless France invaded
manner Brittany
1488 James III died
1489 Passed legislation against Wardship Earl of Treaty of Redon send Navigation Acts
enclosure Northumberland’s 10-year-old 6,000 troops, 12,000 Earl of Northumberland
Calls Parliament for son men dies Yorkshire rebellion
extraordinary revenue for Treaty of Medina del Earl of Suffolk sent to
Brittany £30,000/£100,000 Campo equal trading York (Edmund de la pole)
rights, fixed custom
duties
1491 Parliament agrees to raise Benevolences raised £48,500 for War costed £108,000
taxes for war against France Breton Army
£9,000 from the City of London
for the Breton Crisis
1492 Royal finances from the Court 745,000 crowns payed by 50,000 Henry invaded
of the Exchequer to his crowns a year from France northern France
Chamber Treaty of Étaples
reduce trade
restrictions
1493 Bonds earning Henry £3,000.
1494 Sir Edward Poynings
appointed as Lord Deputy of
Ireland
Poynings’ Law creating English
law in Ireland, stopped the
Irish parliament from doing
anything without consent
1495 Council Learned in Law royal William Stanley is
debt collectors executed
JP’s could vet juries Jasper Tudor dies
Creation of Privy Chamber
