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Charlie Fenton
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‘the new men were remarkably effective in buying land. They found it easier in some counties than others, notably those with active land markets because of proximity to the capital or the prevalence of small estates, but between them they made significant acquisitions across lowland England... Yet the new men’s achievement still stands out. The absolute scale of their gains was larger than that of the lawyers’
— Oct 19, 2017 05:17AM
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Charlie Fenton
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‘The new men died as they had lived, calculating their consumption to mark the status they had won and build the connections they needed to exercise power. They used the common currencies of social display and networking: building, clothing, plate, gifts, hospitality, funeral commemoration.’
— Oct 19, 2017 07:08PM
Charlie Fenton
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‘the means by which Henry’s new men exercised power appear transitional between those of Edward’s great lords and those of the great ministers of the later Tudor reigns. Where engagement at court and in the king’s council was complemented by local office-holding and the construction of a retinue designed to serve the king in the career of William, Lord Hastings, the same was true for Lovell and others.’
— Oct 19, 2017 04:34AM
Charlie Fenton
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‘helped to operate was the best means available to keep good order while preserving their own social power. In this area as in others, the new men’s relationship with legality and justice was not unambiguous. While claiming to act according to law and in pursuit of good order and the common weal, they used their legal expertise and their access to the best lawyers to defend and promote their private interests’
— Oct 18, 2017 08:26AM
Charlie Fenton
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‘The skills, contacts, and determination of the new men made them formidable legal adversaries. The language of legal pleadings was of course full of the sort of accusations levelled at Windsor in one chancery suit, decrying his ‘great power, might and maintenance’, his ‘great bearing and sinister means’.‘
— Oct 18, 2017 05:02AM
Charlie Fenton
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‘Henry needed loyal noblemen and gentlemen to retain followers who would serve under them in war and bolster the power in local communities. Yet he was wary of the way such retaining might provoke instability and took vigorous action to regulate it. He used Edward IV’s statute against retaining of 1468 to prosecute those he did not trust and secured a stricter statute in 1504.’
— Oct 18, 2017 04:34AM
Charlie Fenton
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‘When the imposition of Henry’s will hurt his subjects, it was easy for those subjects to blame the king’s executives, especially when those executives seemed so eager to impose the king’s power and when they prospered from their service to the king. And the fact that to serve the king well, as the recruitment of troops shows with particular clarity, the new men had to increase their own power’
— Oct 17, 2017 06:02PM
Charlie Fenton
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‘Edward IV and Richard III had seen a shift away from the traditional dominance of the exchequer in royal financial management towards coordination of royal income and expenditure by the treasurer of the chamber. At first, Henry reversed this trend, restoring exchequer supremacy. But by 1487 he was beginning to concentrate new streams of income in the chamber and soon it was more powerful than ever.’
— Oct 16, 2017 05:32PM
Charlie Fenton
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‘In parliament, as in court and council, the ubiquity of the new men gave Henry’s regime its characteristic air of purposeful, if not always popular, activity. Their versatility was striking: the same men presented political advice and argument in council and parliament, organised household hospitality and display, kept the king company, participated in court ceremonial’
— Oct 16, 2017 04:46PM
Charlie Fenton
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‘Dudley was concerned about the tensions evident in Henry’s reign between common law and ecclesiastical law, clergy and laity, declaring that ‘any manner of grudge’ between the king’s ‘subjects of the spiritualty and his subjects of the temporality for privilege or liberties’ might be ‘established and reformed’ only by the king. But he harped above all on the need to impose justice on the powerful.’
— Oct 16, 2017 06:53AM
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‘In summer 1497 Perkin Warbeck prepared to invade England from Scotland, claiming the throne on the basis that he was Richard, duke of York, one of the long-lost Princes in the Tower. To prepare the way, he issued a bitter indictment of his rival, King Henry VII. His charges ran from judicial murder and extortionate taxation to breach of the church’s liberties’
— Oct 14, 2017 02:47PM
