Edward's Government and foreign policy

Vagrancy Act

Vagrancy Act

1547

somerset + enclosure

• established a commission on enclosure

• 1548 proclamations enforcing Enclosure laws

• 1549 sheep tax

total raised by debasement

£1,270,000

sale of chantry lands

£100,000

debasement ended

1551

Northumberland’s minion

• Sir John Gates

• Vice Chamberlain

Somerset’s minion

• Michael Stanhope

• Chief Gentleman of privy chamber

debts in 1550

£300,000

debts in 1553

£180,000

Cost of scottish war

£800,000

Treaty of Boulogne

• 1550

• £133,333

• ended rough wooing

Battle of the Pinkie

1547

food prices doubled between…

1520-1550

Somerset’s use of proclamations

• 70

• more than any Tudor