Revision exercises

Each of the following sets of questions serves as a revision exercise. When the answers have been entered in the grid, the vertical letters below each arrow will form a word (or words) associated with the topic. What are they?

GRID A (Claimants and Pretenders)

1. Four brothers from the House of Suffolk (3 words).
2. Richard III’s Chamberlain, who supported Simnel at Stoke.
3. Valois king who recognised Warbeck as Richard IV.
4. This royal family provided five female claimants to Henry’s throne.
5. He pretended to be the Earl of Warwick.
6. Henry’s step-uncle, who was executed in 1495.
7. The eldest son of the Duke of Clarence, imprisoned in the Tower for 14 years.
8. She had the best claim until Henry married her.
9. The target of Henry’s embargoes in 1493 and 1503.
10. Simnel was crowned King of England in this Irish city.
11. Known to his friends as the ‘white rose’, he was arrested in 1506.
12. The eldest son of the Duke of Suffolk, who died fighting for Simnel.
13. The battle in 1487, which helped Henry secure his throne.

GRID B (The Nobility)

1. This powerful duke was head of the Stafford family.
2. Royal councillor who entertained Henry too lavishly and was fined £10,000 for illegal retaining.
3. Son of the Duke of Norfolk, Henry rewarded his loyalty by appointing him to the Council of the North.
4. Act of Livery in 1487 was designed to curtail this practice.
5. Tenants who held lands directly from the King (2 words).
6. Title of Margaret of Burgundy, who encouraged noble opposition to Henry.
7. Parliamentary acts that recovered crown lands seized by nobles between 1455 and 1485.
8. Criminal court that had been abused by nobles in the late fifteenth century.
9. Royal commander at Blackheath in 1497.
10. Earldom of Henry’s step-father, Sir James Stanley.
11. Lord Deputy of Ireland and head of the Geraldine clan.
12. A very powerful Welsh lord who was fined £70,000 for keeping retainers in 1507.
13. An acknowledgement of disloyal conduct that carried a fine at the King’s pleasure.
14. Treasurer of the Council Learned in the Law.

GRID C (Government and Finance)

1. Prerogative court commonly called the Poor Man’s Court.
2. Act of Parliament which seized lands from traitors.
3. The most important source of Henry’s finances (2 words).
4. Archbishop of Canterbury between 1486 and 1500.
5. Traditional Lancastrian method of financial administration.
6. Payments made by minors to their guardian the King.
7. Weight of wool which formed part of Henry’s customs duties.
8. Seven were called in all, six in the first half of the reign.
9. Financial penalties imposed by the King on his wealthier subjects.
10. Chancellor of the Council Learned in the Law.
11. Law courts without juries presided over by royal councillors.

GRID D (Trade and Foreign affairs)

1. King of Scotland between 1488 and 1513.
2. North German group of merchants who had a base in London.
3. Henry pledged support for Brittany at this treaty in 1489.
4. Austrian Habsburg Emperor (1493–1519).
5. Treaty signed by Henry and Philip in 1506.
6. Who discovered Newfoundland on behalf of Henry in 1497?
7. Catherine of Aragon’s father.
8. Treaty with France in 1492 that ended war over Brittany.
9. England’s last surviving continental territory.
10. ‘Great’ trade agreement of 1496.
11. Daughter of Isabella of Castile, to whom Henry proposed in 1507.
12. Italian explorer who failed to get Henry’s patronage for a transatlantic voyage.
13. Archduke of Flanders and son of the Emperor.
14. By this treaty Henry’s daughter, Margaret, was betrothed to the King of Scotland.

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