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H8 Government up to 1529 Government H8: Early Patronage Conciliar Privy Chamber Parliament Groom of the Stool 1509-1529 Government 1509 H8 started his reign The early Council was H8’s court was filled with In the early reign The most intimate of an by doling out patronage to dominated by H7’s men young men, some older Parliament maintained a English monarch’s people including: such as Bishops Fox and than H8, but with similar similar purpose to under courtiers, much The Lord Chamberlain, Warham who maintained tastes for war, sport, H7. Primarily used to confidence was placed in Charles Somerset, lord H7’s desire for peace and entertainment and raise extraordinary the Groom and royal Herbert, had his Welsh economy. expensive and grand revenue. secrets were shared, he offices confirmed and They used the Course of displays. They brought The 1513 parliament also had control over who innumerable new offices. the Seals to reign in H8’s documents for the king to granted £100,000 for war was admitted to the king. Lady Margaret Beaufort extravagance and were an sign. against France although William Compton, Groom was given the manor of effective Regency Council The Gentlemen of the only £50,000 was 1509- 1526 held the privy Woking. holding back the young Bedchamber had status collected. purse with £2328 to spend king. and power due to their within 4 years this had influence over the king. gone up to £17517. AKA. ‘The Minions’. Who was Wolsey? Rise of Wolsey Wolsey as Minister Wolsey’s Church Development of the Court of Chancery Roles Star Chamber Born in 1472, the son of a He joined the Royal Wolsey was extremely Due to William Warham’s Est. by Act of Parliament The role of Chancery was butcher, Wolsey was Council in 1510 and had hardworking and saved holding the position in 1487, from 1516 to apply the principle of educated at Magdalen the post of archbishop by H8 the trouble of Wolsey was not appointed Wolsey developed the ‘equity’ (fairness) rather College Oxford. He rose 1514 and Lord Chancellor managing all of his affairs Archbishop of Canterbury court as a centre of justice than a strict reading of the through clerical positions. after his management of personally, although H8 but was appointed and government. It gave common law. Cases over As Lord Chancellor he the French campaign of still took an interest. His Cardinal in 1515 and cheap, fair justice for enclosure were dealt with oversaw the legal system. 1513. power in government was papal legate – the Pope’s cases of misconduct but here, contracts and land unsurpassed. representative – in 1518. was so successful there left in wills. There was a were backlog of cases. backlog of cases, however. Administration of The Subsidy Amicable Grant Expulsion of the Eltham Ordinances Assessment: Change Subsidies Minions or Continuity? Instead of using local Wolsey had grown tired of The Grant of March 1525 The Privy Chamber, In 1526 Wolsey attempted Continuity: commissioners to assess the lengthy and uncertain was required to fund a staffed by H8’s minions, to reduce the power of the taxpayers’ wealth (often process of parliamentary further French campaign was never fully under Privy Chamber by over-generous to the taxation. Funding for the after Francis I was Wolsey’s control. He reforming the finance of nobility), Wolsey set up a 1523 French Campaign captured by Charles V at attempted to address this the Privy Council. Wolsey national commission which was achieved by a series Pavia. It demanded 1/6 of in 1519 by the expulsion secured a reduction in the he himself headed. With of forced loans raising the income of laymen and of the minions which saw number of Gentlemen of direct assessment of the over £350,000. Wolsey 1/3 of the clergy. most of the young men the Privy Chamber and Change: wealth of taxpayers the applied direct pressure However, it was met with replaced. However, they the removal of William nations revenue base was rather than constitutional widespread uprisings in were gradually Compton to be replaced thus more realistic. measures. Kent and East Anglia. It reappointed and Wolsey by the more compliant was Wolsey’s first major was never able to fully Henry Norris, failure for the King and H8 control this area of was forced to abandon it. government. .
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