Tudor - KT1 Key Dates

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