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henry 8th (“The people of northern England, Cornwall and Wales had little…

- - - - church was centre of the community, and played a vital social role. outbursts of anticlericalism were rare, humanism only developed in H8's reign, erasmus was close with more.
- - - - AGGRESSIVE FP TO A PERIOD OF PASSIVE POLICY AND THEN HE ENDED HIS REIGN WITH MORE AGGRESSION (ROUGH WOOING)
  - - - EXCACERBATED ECONOMIC PROBLEM WITH RUINOUS FP, RATHER THAN TRYING TO ALEVIATE THE PROBLEMS, AND WHEN HE DID TRY TO, IT WAS THROUGH FORCED TAXES SUCH AS THE AM GRANT AND THE 1536 SHEEP TAX
  - - - FAILURE OF MINISTERS TO ACHIEVE HENRY'S AIMS, MORE AND WOLSEY CHARGED WITH PRAEMUNIRE AND GOVERNMENT RADICALISED BY CROMEWELL AND CRANMER
    - - order/ continuity
        
        corwn already had sig authoirty over church, gov remained essentially personal, reflecting the personallitty and interest of the monarch, not all of cromwells reforms survived long term
      - disorder/change, chaange could bring order????
        
        constitutional, H head of church and state, extention of authoirty in the palatinates, political, importance of parl in legislating info, increased amount and scope of leg, procedural improvements, now king IN parliament
- - - - ULTIMATELY THE KINGS PREROGATVE, THE ACTIONS OF MISITERS HAD TO SERVE HENRY'S INTERESTS
  - - - ministers did everything for him but it was his aims that caused the problems
- - - - Overall conclusion
        
        Where there is a threat to everyday life of normal people, social unrest is sparked. In the case of H7, much of this unrest was due to claims to the throne, foreign policy and tax. With H8, tax was still a key player, but religion was perhaps more so. In summary, social unrest is not due to one factor alone but often an accumulation of various factors (PoG - longterm = poverty & trigger = religious change)
- - - - exploiting royal revenue stablised econ, but economy remained egrarian and relatively weak