2025 AQA AS HISTORY Component 1C The Tudors: England,
1485–1603 – Consolidation of the Tudor Dynasty: England,
1485–1547 Question Paper & Mark Scheme (Merged)
Wednesday 14 May 2025 [VERIFIED]
AS
HISTORY
The Tudors: England, 1485–1603
Component 1C Consolidation of the Tudor Dynasty: England, 1485–1547
Wednesday 14 May 2025 Afternoon Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7041/1C.
Answer two questions.
In Section A answer Question 01.
In Section B answer either Question 02 or Question 03.
Information
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
The maximum mark for this paper is 50.
You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
You are advised to spend about:
– 50 minutes on Section A
– 40 minutes on Section B.
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Section A
Answer Question 01.
Extract A
Henry and Cromwell had the support of most of the people in the 1530s. Only the
concerns of the common people, with regard to religion, presented a challenge. Even the
factions formed among leading politicians, although they seemed serious at the time,
showed only limited opposition to Crown policies. Loyalty and obedience to the King, the
guardian of peace and order and the symbol of the state, dominated everything. The one 5
major protest against Cromwell’s revolution, the Pilgrimage of Grace, which seemed
threatening at the time, was confined to the backward and barbarous North. The
dissolution of the monasteries at the end of the decade not only enriched the Crown, it
gained the support of the self-interested landed classes.
Adapted from GR Elton, England under the Tudors, 1991
Extract B
In the 1530s, religious changes, enclosure and the dissolution of the monasteries were
unpopular with the common people. Also, the nobility felt that their interests were not
considered. They were angered by royal commissioners and other government agents
whom they saw as interfering in the traditional social and religious lives of their regions.
The nobility directed their resentment against individuals, who had secured the benefits of 5
royal favour, and especially against Cromwell, whom they saw as an evil influence on the
King. The gentry were angered by the Statute of Uses, which had been passed to enforce
strict limitations on land holding. The northern nobility complained, with some justice, that
the North was seriously under-represented in Parliament.
Adapted from DM Loades, Politics and the Nation, 1999
0 1 With reference to these extracts and your understanding of the historical context, which of
these two extracts provides the more convincing interpretation of responses of different
social groups to the government of Henry VIII in the 1530s?
[25 marks]
IB/M/Jun25/7041/1C
1485–1603 – Consolidation of the Tudor Dynasty: England,
1485–1547 Question Paper & Mark Scheme (Merged)
Wednesday 14 May 2025 [VERIFIED]
AS
HISTORY
The Tudors: England, 1485–1603
Component 1C Consolidation of the Tudor Dynasty: England, 1485–1547
Wednesday 14 May 2025 Afternoon Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7041/1C.
Answer two questions.
In Section A answer Question 01.
In Section B answer either Question 02 or Question 03.
Information
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
The maximum mark for this paper is 50.
You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
You are advised to spend about:
– 50 minutes on Section A
– 40 minutes on Section B.
IB/M/Jun25/E4 7041/1C
, 2
Section A
Answer Question 01.
Extract A
Henry and Cromwell had the support of most of the people in the 1530s. Only the
concerns of the common people, with regard to religion, presented a challenge. Even the
factions formed among leading politicians, although they seemed serious at the time,
showed only limited opposition to Crown policies. Loyalty and obedience to the King, the
guardian of peace and order and the symbol of the state, dominated everything. The one 5
major protest against Cromwell’s revolution, the Pilgrimage of Grace, which seemed
threatening at the time, was confined to the backward and barbarous North. The
dissolution of the monasteries at the end of the decade not only enriched the Crown, it
gained the support of the self-interested landed classes.
Adapted from GR Elton, England under the Tudors, 1991
Extract B
In the 1530s, religious changes, enclosure and the dissolution of the monasteries were
unpopular with the common people. Also, the nobility felt that their interests were not
considered. They were angered by royal commissioners and other government agents
whom they saw as interfering in the traditional social and religious lives of their regions.
The nobility directed their resentment against individuals, who had secured the benefits of 5
royal favour, and especially against Cromwell, whom they saw as an evil influence on the
King. The gentry were angered by the Statute of Uses, which had been passed to enforce
strict limitations on land holding. The northern nobility complained, with some justice, that
the North was seriously under-represented in Parliament.
Adapted from DM Loades, Politics and the Nation, 1999
0 1 With reference to these extracts and your understanding of the historical context, which of
these two extracts provides the more convincing interpretation of responses of different
social groups to the government of Henry VIII in the 1530s?
[25 marks]
IB/M/Jun25/7041/1C
