Booklet 2 Society and Economy - Knowledge Test 1

1st Tudor Monarch + reign dates

Henry VII - 1485-1509

2nd Tudor Monarch + reign dates

Henry VIII - 1509-1547

3rd Tudor Monarch + reign dates

Edward VI - 1547-1553

4th Tudor Monarch + reign dates

Mary I - 1553-1558

5th Tudor Monarch + reign dates

Elizabeth I - 1558-1601

What was the population in 1500? What was it in 1603?

2.3 million - 3.8 million

What law was passed to enforce a universal obligation to work and provide employment? Date?

Statute of Artifices 1563

Which town grew the most? Its population rose from 2% of total population in 1520 to what % by 1700?

London -11%

What were the gentry responsible for? 2 answers

Serving as Justices of the Peace (JP's) and collecting taxes for the Crown

The Barlows of Slebech extended their landownership after the dissolution of the monasteries. Where did they acquire?

Creswell Chapel and House of the Black Friars

When did the rise of the gentry begin, limiting its significance

Before Battle of Bosworth

Name the 3 biggest towns in Tudor England

Bristol, Norwich and London

How many market towns were there?

800

How many crafts did the second city have by 1525?

80

How many acts of Parliament were passed to help improve rivers?

8

Before 1550, what percentage of the cloth trade lay in the hands of Hanseatic merchants?

40%

In which area did Tin production double from 1490 to 1550?

5-6 times

What was the name for people who couldn't work e.g. sick, orphans, elderly, disabled

Impotent poor

What was the name for people who could work, but seen as too lazy, i.e. the 'masterless men'

able bodied poor

In what year was HVII's only act that put beggars and idle persons in the stocks for 3 days, then whipped them and sent them home?

1495

Who proposed the bill that recognised there were not enough jobs and set out a scheme of public works and a new form of tax? What year was this proposed?

William Marshall - 1535

Why was the bill rejected?

Was too expensive

The 1536 Act was a compromise and probvided what for the sons of poor families?

Apprenticeships

In what year was the hardest Poor Law of the period passed? Whose reign was this in?

1547 - Edward's reign

Why was it the harshest?

It branded the poor with a 'V' on their cheek

Why was the 1552 Act unsuccessful?

Too vaguely worded, not made compulsory

Why was the 1555 Act that allowed begging in certain areas unsuccessful?

No-one defined what a 'rich' or 'poor' parish was

When was poor rate made compulsory?

1563

What years was the whipping campaign?

1569-1572

Name one member of Elizabeth's poor law committee

Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Aldrich (Norwich),. Edward Hext (Sommerset)

What two laws were passed in 1598?

Act for relief of the poor, Act for punishment of Rogues

What word describes laws that were harsh, and based on punishment?

Punitive

What word describes laws that were visionary and progressive?

Enlightened