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Flashcards by Izzy Noone, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Izzy Noone
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| Question | Answer |
| Arable farming | Labour intensive farming which produced crops using basic tools including ploughs |
| Enclosure | The fencing off of land from open fields with the ending of all common rights over it. |
| Customs duties | Money paid on goods entering or leaving the country. Money came from tunnage (taxes on export) and poundage (taxes on imports) |
| Primogeniture | The eldest son or nearest male relative inherited everything. |
| Divine Right of Kings | The belief that monarchs were ruling on behalf of God. They were therefore answerable to God, and the monarch's subjects were expected to obey the monarch, otherwise they were disobeying God. |
| Secular | The opposite of "sacred", i.e. worldly things, not spiritual. |
| Stipend | The term used for the payment received by a priest for his appointment to a parish |
| Norman Conquest | The events in which William came from Normandy and defeated the English King, Harold, in 1066. William and his successors imposed their own laws and systems of government. |
| Laity/Laymen | A general term referring to people who had not been trained and accepted as priests. |
| Indulgences | The indulgence was a document, issued with the Pope's authority, setting out the cancellation of punishment in purgatory- a place where it was believed souls of the dead went to whilst waiting to be sent to heaven. |
| Magnate | A term describing a member of the greater nobility- the barons- who owned large estates. The greater families had consolidated their holdings through marriage and family links, building up a significant territorial base where they effectively governed in the king's name. |
| Cardinal | Senior officials of the Catholic Church that had the right to vote in the election of a Pope. Cardinals were appointed by the Pope, usually with the approval of the monarch. In return for wealth, status, and the protection of its privileges, the Church provided monarchs with an educated force of trained administrators and a cheap way of rewarding those who served them well. |
| The Council Learned in Law | An offshoot of the Royal Council which dealt initially with managing and pursuing the King's feudal rights, but as soon assumed control of all financial matters relating to Crown lands. All the members were trained in law and acted as investigators and judges in cases where there was suspicion that a nobleman was not paying his proper dues. |
| Hanseatic League | A league of German towns which dominated trade in the Baltic. They aimed to maintain a monopoly of trade there. |
| New World | This was the term being used to describe the continent of America that was discovered by Spanish sailors during Henry VII's reign. |
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