Tudor England

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It's a good thing lovely Hillary Mantel didn't use this weighty tome as inspiration for Wolf Hall/Bring up the Bodies. All the decisions were to be made in England, ultimately by the King himself, and in practice by top aides such as Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell.

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Authoritative, clearly argued, and crisply written, this comprehensive book will be indispensable to anyone interested in the Tudor Age.In 1559 the Regent became alarmed that widespread Scottish hostility against French rule was strengthening the partisan cause, so she banned unauthorised preaching.

The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

The only reason I've deducted a star is because it is not a particularly entertaining read yet this can be forgiven as it was obviously not designed to be by Guy. Guy's Henry is a Stalin-like figure, bullying and intimidating his closest associates, fixing juries and resorting to all sorts of chicanery to achieve his will. Elizabeth first sent money, then sent artillery, then sent a fleet that destroyed the French fleet in Scotland. Kett's Rebellion began in 1549 in Norfolk; it started as a demonstration against enclosures of common land. Dasent (46 vols; London, 1890–1964); Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England, ed.

Henry was the first king to organise the navy as a permanent force, with a permanent administrative and logistical structure, funded by tax revenue. Lehmberg, The Reformation Parliament, 1529–1536 (Cambridge UP, 1970); Lehmberg, The Later Parliaments of Henry VIII, 1536–1547 (Cambridge UP, 1977); H. Elton's point was that before Cromwell the realm could be viewed as the King's private estate writ large, where most administration was done by the King's household servants rather than separate state offices.

Thomas Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell and the Reform of Henrician

Further Supplement to Letters, Despatches and State Papers Relating to the Negotiations between England and Spain (London, 1940); R. One feature which particularly marks the book out as a cut above the standard popular history of the period is that Guy has gone back to the original sources for the vast majority of his material; he solemnly undertakes in the preface to “scythe through spin and legend and come closer to her ‘authentic’ voice” (6) by disregarding calendars and summaries and using only original sources in full. It would be fair to say that the very last years of the reign, the two years or so from Essex’s execution to the queen’s death, have been largely ignored, although the case is not very different here. One can criticise various aspects of the “second reign” thesis, and indeed I have done so; like many of history’s “big ideas,” it is arguably a reductive approach, which obscures as much as it illuminates. It was Wolsey who almost invariably calculated the available options and ranked them for royal consideration; who established the parameters of each successive debate; who controlled the flow of official information; who selected the king's secretaries, middle-ranked officials, and JPs; and who promulgated decisions himself had largely shaped, if not strictly taken.Lopez's believed involvement in a plot to poison Elizabeth I may have had a long-running effect on shaping antisemitic views in the United Kingdom. However, in 1553 as Edward VI lay dying, he and the Duke of Northumberland plotted to make his first cousin once removed, Lady Jane Grey, the new monarch. Stater, Noble Government: the Stuart Lord Lieutenancy and the Transformation of English Politics (1994).