By Victor Stater
A Political historical past of Tudor and Stuart England attracts jointly a desirable collection of resources to light up this turbulent period of English background. From the bloody overthrow of Richard III in 1485, to the production of a world imperial nation lower than Queen Anne, those resources illustrate England's tough transition from the medieval to the modern.Covering a interval characterized via clash and department, this wide-ranging single-volume assortment offers the bills of Yorkists and Lancastrians, Protestants and Catholics, and Roundheads and Cavaliers part by means of facet. A Political background of Tudor and Stuart England offers an important chance for college students to ascertain the associations and occasions that moulded English historical past within the early sleek period at first-hand.
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June 19, Windsor Castle, afternoon. Present: the Queen: Lord Treasurer, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The inhabitants of Drury Lane in the parish of St. Martin’s in the Fields [their petition is read setting forth] that there is a building, late Mr. Burgesse’s Meeting House situate in Russell Court, which being convenient for a chapel of ease for the use of the said inhabitants who are very remote from their parochial church, they have taken and fitted up for that use: but now finding the charge thereof to amount to about 650l.
To the Paymaster of the Works: to be paid over to Mr. Wise as in part of 3323l. 1s. 0d. resting due on bills passed by the officers of the works, being for works in her Majesty’s Gardens at Kensington, Windsor, etc. Prepare the state of a case for the Attorney General’s opinion whether the 6472l. 1s. 0d. in the Exchequer [arising out] of [pirate] Kid’s* effects may be issued for the service of the Hospital at Greenwich: And another state of a case for his opinion whether the remainder of 6000l.
HENRY VIII AND HIS SERVANTS Early Tudor government was personal government. Distinction between public and private service was never clear; the king’s servants were his, not the state’s, though they might perform the duties of a bureaucrat. These letters give some idea of the nature of the king’s government in the reign of Henry VIII. Gaining a foothold in the royal service depended upon the cultivation of personal ties. Patrons found posts for clients, who in turn magnified the importance of their benefactors, giving them eyes and ears in the bureaucracy.
