Date Event Significance
1485 Henry’s victory at Bosworth Use of Parliament to backtrack dat
implicate opponents in treason
1486 Henry’s right to be king recognised by
the Papacy
1490 Jasper Tudor heads the Council in Wales
1495 Henry creates the Yeomen of the Guard Demonstrates a mistrust of those arou
Chmaber used to collect and store monarch in matters of security and financ
royal income (Chamber finance) financial policy quickly collapsed as
Vagabond and Beggard Act stating that heavily reliant on the monarch’s initiative
idle poor were to be put in stocks for few succeeding failed to use.
three days, to be whipped and eturned
o their parish
JPs given power to arrest suspects and
replace corrupt jurors
Appointment to county benches
between 30-35
1501 Arthur sent to Ludlow castle though he
died a year later
1513 Subsidy under Wolsey
1514 Subsidy repeated
1515 Thomas Wolsey appointed as cardinal
by the Pope
Subsidy repeated
1517 Tenths and fifteenths had raised
117,936 from past 5 years
1518 Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber Groom of the Stool had an important role
established by Henry VIII who were the they had access to the monarch’s health.
staff. Patronage system
Many of Henry’s friends filled these
positions like diplomatic missions
against France and military expeditions
against the Scots.
1520 Spent £1m on war effort from 1509 but
only recieved 25,000 a year from
revenues before tax
1521 Buckingham executed for treason for
visiting his estates in Wales with an
army of 400 armed men
1523 Subsidy- raised 322,099 from 1513
Parliament refused wolsey the
, £800,000 grant so he was forced to
negotiate a lesser sum
17,000 taxpayers in the country
1525 Mary sent to Wales
Lord Dacre fined £1000 for tolerance of
disorder in the Star Chamber
Population of England around 2.26
million (will rise to 3.01milliom by
1551)
Amicable grant which wolsey was
forced to cancel after lavenham 10,000
men gathered to protest. Fund war in
france
1526 Wolsey summons JPs and introduced
the 21 questionnarie to on law and
order
1527 Henry begins annulment proceedings
1528 Mary returns from Ludlow castle
1529 Fall of Wolsey
Borough Preston and Thretford created
in Duchy of Lancaster b
1531 Poor Law ordering that beggars were to
be whipped.
1533 Act of Restraint of Appeals
1534 Act of Supremacy
Subsidy levied during peace-time
1535 Law in Wales Act
Lord president became Rowland Lee
No marcher lords and instead 12
english style counties
Sherrifs coroners and justices of peace
No welsh permitted in courts
2MPs who would sit in parliament
Wales directly under crown control
1537 Council in the North
Power to decide cases of treason,
murder, felony
Regulated trade etc
Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland,
Cumberland, Westmoreland and given
permanent headquarters in St Mary
priory
1485 Henry’s victory at Bosworth Use of Parliament to backtrack dat
implicate opponents in treason
1486 Henry’s right to be king recognised by
the Papacy
1490 Jasper Tudor heads the Council in Wales
1495 Henry creates the Yeomen of the Guard Demonstrates a mistrust of those arou
Chmaber used to collect and store monarch in matters of security and financ
royal income (Chamber finance) financial policy quickly collapsed as
Vagabond and Beggard Act stating that heavily reliant on the monarch’s initiative
idle poor were to be put in stocks for few succeeding failed to use.
three days, to be whipped and eturned
o their parish
JPs given power to arrest suspects and
replace corrupt jurors
Appointment to county benches
between 30-35
1501 Arthur sent to Ludlow castle though he
died a year later
1513 Subsidy under Wolsey
1514 Subsidy repeated
1515 Thomas Wolsey appointed as cardinal
by the Pope
Subsidy repeated
1517 Tenths and fifteenths had raised
117,936 from past 5 years
1518 Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber Groom of the Stool had an important role
established by Henry VIII who were the they had access to the monarch’s health.
staff. Patronage system
Many of Henry’s friends filled these
positions like diplomatic missions
against France and military expeditions
against the Scots.
1520 Spent £1m on war effort from 1509 but
only recieved 25,000 a year from
revenues before tax
1521 Buckingham executed for treason for
visiting his estates in Wales with an
army of 400 armed men
1523 Subsidy- raised 322,099 from 1513
Parliament refused wolsey the
, £800,000 grant so he was forced to
negotiate a lesser sum
17,000 taxpayers in the country
1525 Mary sent to Wales
Lord Dacre fined £1000 for tolerance of
disorder in the Star Chamber
Population of England around 2.26
million (will rise to 3.01milliom by
1551)
Amicable grant which wolsey was
forced to cancel after lavenham 10,000
men gathered to protest. Fund war in
france
1526 Wolsey summons JPs and introduced
the 21 questionnarie to on law and
order
1527 Henry begins annulment proceedings
1528 Mary returns from Ludlow castle
1529 Fall of Wolsey
Borough Preston and Thretford created
in Duchy of Lancaster b
1531 Poor Law ordering that beggars were to
be whipped.
1533 Act of Restraint of Appeals
1534 Act of Supremacy
Subsidy levied during peace-time
1535 Law in Wales Act
Lord president became Rowland Lee
No marcher lords and instead 12
english style counties
Sherrifs coroners and justices of peace
No welsh permitted in courts
2MPs who would sit in parliament
Wales directly under crown control
1537 Council in the North
Power to decide cases of treason,
murder, felony
Regulated trade etc
Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland,
Cumberland, Westmoreland and given
permanent headquarters in St Mary
priory
