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Treaty of Hampton Court |
-Elizabeth's advisers (Robert Dudley) hoped to recover Calais through supporting Huguenots-The treaty promised military aid and loans in 1562-Earl of Warwick captured Le Havre-Tried to exchange it for Calais, disillusioning the Huguenots, calling a truce with the Catholics-Le Havre was surrendered in 1563 after a plague outburst-Peace of Troyes signed in 1564 |
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Council of Trent |
-Founded in 1545, an council of European Catholic clergy to discuss the church's future-Produced a set of hard-line decrees in 1563-Prevented peaceful compromise with Protestants and the Ottoman Turks-Catholicism was reinvigorated, and France and Spain became bigger religious threats-Some wanted Elizabeth excommunicated, but Phillip II wanted to persuade her back |
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Inflation |
-15th Century inflation roughly 400%-Peaks in 1520s and 1540s-Debasement 1526-27, 1544-51 -Increase of bullion in circulation -Government spending on wars increased -Bad harvests forced prices up -Land sold in the open market in the 1530s -Modern economic historians suggest population growth was a significant cause |
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Population Growth |
-1.5m in 1470 > 2.3m in 1520 > nearly 3m in 1550 > 4m in 1603 -Epidemics were possibly less common in 1540s -Plague in 1551-52, influenza in 1556 + 58 led to slight fall in 1560s -Denser populations suffered more -Good harvests 1537-42 1546-48, population grew -Bad harvest 1549-51 and 1554-56, population dips and epidemics peaked |
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Statute of Artificers, Poor Law Legislation |
-Forced unemployed to take on 7-year apprenticeships in a specific place in 1563 -Justices of Peace enforced the law and could send culprits back to original parishes -Distinction between impotent and idle, but not job-seeking and lazy unemployed -The 1552 attempt to register beggars for a license, and whipped and fined if they begged without it, was ill-thought-out |
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Henry VII + VIII + Edward Poor Law legislation |
-1495, P=stocks, whipping, parish of origin -1531, Impotent could beg with licence P=+fined -1536, Voluntary contributions assisted impotent, children beggars taken from parents to work -1547, Church fund collections and houses built for impotent, 3 days unemployed = vagrant, if convicted of begging, branding and slavery, 3rd offence =death penalty |
