Flipped Learning Make Facebook profiles for the following figures: Edmund Dudley Richard Empson John Morton Focus on their importance during the reign of HVII. Look out for their key ideas and actions during Henry’s reign.

Henry VII: Key Individuals Good learning: Recall key individuals during the reign of HVII Great learning: Explain their roles and influence during the reign of HVII Even better: Decide how important each key person during the reign of HVII Key Words: Morton’s Fork Extortioners Council Learned in the Law How important was the role of key individuals and groups and how were they affected by developments?

What questions so we need to ask when looking at the importance of key individuals during the reign of HVII?

Empson and Dudley Collectively, they set up a system of spies Edmund Dudley Lawyer - specialised in the prerogative rights of the King as a lawyer 1504 = part of the Council Learned in the Law (Reginald Bray died in 1503) Role was to manage the King’s ways of collecting money owed He sold offices, wardships, and licences to marry the widows of tenants-in-chief; pardons for treason, sedition, murder, riot, retaining, and other offences. His agents. like John Camby, quickly acquired a reputation for extortionate use of their influence He was tried in London in July 1509 and convicted of treason He confeddes to 84 cases where he extracted money illegally Dudley was finally beheaded on Tower Hill in 1510 Richard Empson Lawyer 1504 = part of the Council Learned in the Law (Reginald Bray died in 1503). Empson relentlessly strove to increase the king’s revenue. He raised rents, cancelled rebates, ran surveys and audits, investigated feudal dues. As part of the Council Learned he pursued the king’s debtors  and his techniques were not pretty. He dug out approvers, third parties who would bring prosecutions against individuals; he imprisoned people to force them to settle fines. He used his position to further his own ends too – for example his attempt to disinherit Sir Robert Plumpton in the interests of his daughter. Empson was arrested just three days after HVII’s death Empson was finally beheaded on Tower Hill in 1510 Collectively, they set up a system of spies 46/62 noble families suffered financially There was an increase in the use of bonds Characterised by Polydore Vergil and others as extortioners All they did was sanctioned and encouraged by the king

John Morton Archbishop of Canterbury from 1486 until his death and also Lord Chancellor of England from 1487. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1493 As Lord Chancellor, Morton was tasked with restoring the royal estate By the end of Henry VII's reign, the king's frugality, and Morton's tax policy, carried out by Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson, had replenished the treasury. Came up with the concept of ‘Morton’s Fork’ A Morton's fork is a type of false dilemma Someone living modestly must be saving money and, therefore, could afford taxes Someone living extravagantly obviously was rich and, therefore, could afford taxes

How important were key individuals in the reign of HVII? Write one sentence that summarises how important the individual is. Write sentences that contain evidence about what the key person did. Use your criteria to explain why the evidence you have used, either makes them important, or not. First of all, you are going to bullet point a criteria. The criteria is: What would need to happen for an individual to be important in the reign of HVII? You are now going to write three PEE paragraphs, one for each key individual. Stick in your structure strip, and use it as a guide when writing each paragraph.

Flipped Learning It could relate to: Come to lesson with three questions you have about anything we have studied in relation to Henry VII. It could relate to: King’s consolidation of their power Government Foreign Relations Religion Rebellions Society Economy

Write one sentence that summarises how important the individual is. Write sentences that contain evidence about what the key person did. Use your criteria to explain why the evidence you have used, either makes them important, or not. Write one sentence that summarises how important the individual is. Write sentences that contain evidence about what the key person did. Use your criteria to explain why the evidence you have used, either makes them important, or not. Write one sentence that summarises how important the individual is. Write sentences that contain evidence about what the key person did. Use your criteria to explain why the evidence you have used, either makes them important, or not. Write one sentence that summarises how important the individual is. Write sentences that contain evidence about what the key person did. Use your criteria to explain why the evidence you have used, either makes them important, or not.