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Wolsey's reforms

Miranda Patalidis 12 questions

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  1. 1What is enclosure?
    1. AAn area to keep animals
    2. BDivisions of land allowing landowners to make money based on its use.
    3. CThe division of the country into counties
  2. 2What were the negative impacts that enclosures had? (Pick 2)
    1. AThey reduced the land available to tenant farmers.
    2. BThey reduced the land available to the poor for their animals to graze.
    3. CThey reduced the land available to nobles.
    4. DThey reduced the land available to the King.
  3. 3Wolsey set up an inquiry in 1517 to investigate this practice and reduce its effect on ordinary people. His work resulted in 260 court cases being brought against landowners.
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  4. 4What was the result of his policies against enclosure?
    1. AThey achieved very little as enclosures continued to take place. The policy angered many landowners, creating enemies for him at court.
    2. BThey were very successful, it eventually became illegal for any enclosures to exist and the amount of tenant farmers increased dramatically because of it.
    3. CHis policies were a complete failure. It was thrown out of government by many of the noble landowners as they felt threatened by the policy.
  5. 5As Lord Chancellor, Wolsey sought to create a fairer justice system that ensured the rich were mot above the law.

    Which one of the following statements is NOT true about how he went about doing this?
    1. AHe strengthened the star chamber which was a royal court that supplied justice for the King.
    2. BHe encouraged the poor to bring cases to court.
    3. CHe increased the court's work rate so they got through more cases.
    4. DHe supported the cases of the poor against the rich.
    5. EHe oversaw cases himself.
    6. FAll nobles which had cases against them payed a fine.
  6. 6The reforms that Wolsey made for the justice system [blank_start]angered[blank_end] many landowners who said that Wolsey was [blank_start]victimising[blank_end] them.
    1. Aangered
    2. Bexcited
    3. Cvictimising
    4. Dprotecting
  7. 7The main aim Wolsey had for the Eltham Ordinances was to tackle the misspending and bad management of the palaces.
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  8. 8In order to raise money to fund Henry's wars Wolsey used [blank_start]fifteenths[blank_end] and tenths which were taxes on [blank_start]moveable[blank_end] goods.
    1. Afifteenths
    2. Btithes
    3. Cfifths
    4. Dmoveable
    5. Estationary
    6. Fexpensive
  9. 9Subsidy was a tax on incomes. The was a progressive tax ( the more your earned the more you pay)
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  10. 10Crown lands were land already owned by the crown which increased the income for Henry's expensive lifestyle.
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse

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