Structure and Dynamics of English Society in the 15th Century

Nobles in England

55

Gentry, middle class, and yeomen in England

6,000

Commoners in England and Wales

2 million

Percentage of people living under the poverty line

50%

Clergy in England

45,000

England's population in 1430

2.1 million

England's population in 1522

2.3 million

England's population in 1640

5.2 million

Palatine of Durham

County of Durham

Governor of Durham as a semi-independent ruler

The Prince Bishop

Murdered during the Yorkshire Rebellion

Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland

Henry VII's representative in the North

Earl of Suffolk

Henry VII's deputy in Ireland

Earl of Kildare

Replaced Kildare in 1494

Sir Edward Poynings

Kildare's restoration to power in Ireland

1496

Leader of the Council of Wales

Jasper Tudor

Honorary control over the Council of Wales

Prince Arthur

Yorkshire Rebellion

1489

Leader of the Yorkshire Rebellion

Sir John Egremont

Cornish Rebellion

1497

Tax voted by Parliament in January 1497

£120,000

Rebels marched to London during the Cornish Rebellion

15,000

Battle of Blackheath

17th September 1497

Rebels killed at the Battle of Blackheath

1,000

Percentage of land enclosed in the Midlands during Henry VII's reign

3%

Two anti-enclosure laws passed

1489

Strategic area targeted by the first enclosure law

Isle of Wight

Percentage of exports that was cloth

90%

Increase in cloth exports between 1485-1509

60%

Percentage of population working full-time in the cloth trade

1.3%

Increase in cloth exports to the Hanseatic League from 1400-1500

5x

Year Henry VII sponsored the building of a blast furnace in Kent

1496

Navigation Acts passed

1485 & 1489

Year France placed trade embargoes on England

1487

Year the Treaty of Etaples was signed

1492

Year Henry VII placed a trade embargo on Burgundy

1493

Year France removed all trade restrictions on England

1495

Year the Intercursus Magnus was signed

1496

Year Henry ended the Hanseatic League's control of bullion exports

1498

Year Henry restored the Hanseatic League's privileges

1504

Year the Intercursus Malus was signed

1506

Year the Intercursus Malus was reversed

1507

Year Henry VII refused to sponsor Christopher Columbus

1486

Year John Cabot arrived in England

1495

Initial amount given to John Cabot by Henry VII

£50

Year John Cabot reached North America

1497

Explorer sponsored by Henry VII in 1509

Sebastian Cabot

Passage believed discovered by Sebastian Cabot

Hudson Strait

Year of the trade embargo on Burgundy

1493

Years of depression in the cloth trade

1493-1496

Change in the export price of wool between 1493-1496

It fell