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1512, 1559, 1586
MP numbers: 302, 402, 462
1509-1529
Parliament met four times: 1510, 1512-14 (anti-clerical), 1515, 1523
1509
Wolsey the Royal Almoner, Henry VIII 17
1512-1515
Parliaments called for religious reform
1512
Act passed to limit benefit of the clergy
1515
MPs complain of the Hunne Affair - a rich merchant accused of heresy was found dead in the Bishop of London’s prison
Wolsey becomes a cardinal, and Lord Chancellor of England
1518
Wolsey is Papal Legate
1517-1518
Wolsey’s national enquiry into enclosure - 264 landlords prosecuted
1513-1523
£322,099 is raised
1523
Opposition in the Commons to tax
reversed enclosure policy due to landlord pressure
1525
Wolsey’s Amicable Grant
1529
‘Reformation Parliament’
Wolsey failed to gain annulment of Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon, was accused of praemunire, stripped of possessions and banished
1521
execution of Duke of Buckingham for treason
1526
Wolsey tries reduce Privy Council to 20 men daily through Eltham Ordinances
1530
Wolsey dies en route to trial
1531
Henry threatening to use parliament to threaten the pope
Cromwell becomes a member of Henry’s Council
1532
Cromwell used parliament to pass laws to reinforce king’s supremacy over Church
1536
Pilgrimage of Grace - complaints of persons of ‘low birth’ on Henry’s council
Edward born, Mary and Elizabeth declared illegitimate
Dissolution of Smaller Monasteries
Act of Ten Articles
Cromwell used parliament to bring Wales into English judicial system
1530s
Faction grew
1533
Elizabeth born, Cromwell drafts Act in Restraint of Appeal - prevents Catherine appealing to Rome
1534
Parliament confirms Royal Supremacy
Cromwell made vicegerent in spirituals
1539
conservative Act of Six Articles
1537
smaller ‘Privy Council’ - due to 1536 rebellion
1541
dissolution of monasteries = income peaked to £126,296
Henry VIII visited north of England
1544
Act of Succession - Mary next heir
1547
Edward VI was 9
Henry’s death kept a secret - Edward Seymour to become Lord Protector
Two-thirds of monastery land sold off
1549
Western Rebellion - directed at Edward’s religious policies
1546
reformers faction had upper-hand over conservatives
1550-51
reformed custom duties, raised £25,900
1550s
royal household cost £75,000 a year
1553
Edward falls ill, attempts to alter succession
Mary is 37
1555
First Fruits and Tenths (clerical tax to Rome) and Exiles bill
1558
Elizabeth I was 25
1559
difficulties due to conservative House of Lords
Burghley proposed ‘Device for the Alteration of the Religion’
1558 and 1603
taxation yielded less : 140,000 in the former, 80,000 in the latter
1560
negotiated a peace treaty with Scotland
1569
Northern Rebellion called themselves Elizabeth’s ‘most true and lawful subjects’
Court-based plot and rebellion to remove Cecil from power
1566
Council forced to allow parliament to discuss marriage and succession in return for taxation
1566 and 1576
Elizabeth tried to restrict freedom of speech
1571
Cecil becomes Lord Burghley
1578
Elizabeth visits East Anglia
1585
Elizabeth reliant on taxation
1590s
Parliament and Elizabeth become strained