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Role and Importance of Parliament in the 1530s (AQA A-Level History): Flashcards

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Role and Importance of Parliament in the 1530s

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Statute law

Laws by Parliament w/ royal consent; highest form in England

Proclamations

Royal decrees outside Parliament scope or when not sitting

Reformation Parliament duration & dates

1529-1536 (seven years)

King-in-Parliament

King governs but lawmaking done in Parliament, not alone

House of Lords composition early 1530s

51 peers, 21 bishops, 29 abbots

House of Commons size early 1530s

310 members: 74 county, 236 towns/boroughs

Abbots in Lords after dissolution

Vanished completely from House of Lords

Clergy in Lords after dissolution

Became a minority for first time

Cromwell's 2 purposes for using Parliament

Legitimise break w/ Rome; enhance royal authority

Political nation

Governing class King depended on to implement policies

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The Rule of Henry VIII and Wolsey, 1509–29

Henry VIII: The Break with Rome in the 1530s

Henry VIII's Last Years

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