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Edward's Second Reign (Dealing with Opposition (Thomas Neville '…

- - - - Appoointed Captain of Warwick's navy
      - Missed orders to raise Kentish army to fight at Barnet
    - - Lord Scales tricked Thomas and was eventually captured
  - - - 1465, John knighted and made Chamberlain to the Queen
      - Arrested in 1468 for 'plotting' but later pardoned in 1469
      - Joined Warwick at Barnet and Edgecote
        
        Later responsible for stopping Ed landing in 1471
        
        Lands confiscated upon Ed's return
        
        Sep 1473 - Sieged in St Michaels Mount by John Fortescue
        
        Captured and attainted in 1474 and 1475
        
        Escaped under Richard III and led Henry Tudor's force at Bosworth
- - - - Collected £550p.a from own lands
    - - Revenue rose to £70,000
    - - Benefited from fees and fines charged by courts
        
        £300-£500p.a.
    - - Ed able to bully Church into paying taxes called 'tenths'
      - Between 1472-1475, Church paid Ed £48,000
    - - By 1483, increased from £25,000p.a to £35,000p.a
    - - Ed revalued the coinage and raised £17,500
        
        Unpopular with the people
      - Could raise £30,000 in times of need such as for warfare
      - Act of Attainder could be passed
        
        Unpopular with nobility
    - - Ed set up Black Book
        
        Allowed him to reduce expenses
    - - Ed gained £10,000 and annual pension of £15,000p.a.
      - Elizabeth of York's betrothal gained Ed £60,000p.a.
    - - Collected £22,000 by this method
- - - - Gain prestige
      - Unite nobility
      - Stops the French
    - - Charles the Bold fighting HRE
      - Brittany also removed their support when threatened with French invasion
    - - Francis II (of Brittany) and Charles the Bold (of Burgundy) both committed themselves to the English alliance
      - Army assembled was described as 'the finest, largest and best' with weaponry as fine as the Burgundian
      - On arriving in France, it was discovered that Charles was still fighting on the German border. the King ignored pleas from nobles to join his army with Edward's
        
        Edward opened negotiations with Louis XI shortly after
        
        Francis II also failed to show up
        
        With winter approaching, many nobles now favoured peace
    - - Edward agreed to give up claim to Norway and Guienne and remove army from France immediately
      - Louis promised to give payment of £15,000 and annual pension of £10,000
      - Dauphin to marry either Elizabeth or Mary of York and provide her with a jointure of £60,000p.a.
      - 7 year truce agreed
      - Louis XI agreed to pay ransom for Margaret of Anjou (£15,000)
      - Charles was furious when he heard of the truce
      - Gifts were given to all English nobles by Louis XI
        
        Gloucester accepted the gifts but refused a French pension
      - Many rank and file felt betrayed along with Gloucester. Chances of profit and plunder removed
      - Parliament felt cheated
  - - - Edward agreed to pay dowry of £5,000
    - - Naval force raided but land army never invaded
- - - - Isabella of Spain
      - Sister of Maximillian
      - Daughter of Duke of Milan
      - Finally betrothed to Anne, heiress of Brittany in 1480
    - - Betrothed to Frederick of Denmark
    - - After Charles of Burgundy death, widow Margaret (Ed's sister) is in control
      - Margaret favoured daughter Mary as Clarence's new wife
        
        Edward refused though
        
        Didn't trust George
        
        Didn't want to risk treaty with Louis XI
        
        Instead, Ed offered Anthony Woodville, but this was refused by Burgundian's
- - - - Edward felt compelled to remit 3/4 of the fifteenth and tenth due for collection