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Stability of government Mary and Edward - Coggle Diagram
Stability of government Mary and Edward
Somerset 1547-1550
Problems of minority rule
Somerset's personal rule
Finances
Sheep and Cloth tax 1547
Warwick/Northumberland 1550-1553
Mary
Devise for succession
Female rule
marriage
Legacy of Henry VIII
Finances
Henry had put Edward in severe debt (£2 million cost of war)
Led to debasement of the coinage (raised 537,000 from 1547-1551)
Dissolution of the chantries in 1548 depleted social care once again, led to increase in revenue.
War
Somserset wanted to Invade scotland
Won the battle of Pinkie Clough in September 1547, killing 700 men and James IV
Garrisons cost 240,000
total spent 580,000
Garrisoning was ineffective- 18 miles from Edinburgh, bad timing.
Forgot to blockade the Firth of Forth, enabled Mary Queren of Scots to escape and marry the french dauphin
emplloyment of 7000 mercenaries
Poverty, vagrancy, sheep
Factional rivalry