Sheep eat men Recall examples of Wolsey acting on behalf of the poor and suggest why he may have wanted to help them.

Learning Outcomes By the end of this lesson you will be able to: Examine Wolsey’s financial policies explain what enclosure was explain how Wolsey tackled the problem of enclosure explain what profiteering was explain how Wolsey tackled the problem of profiteering evaluate Wolsey's domestic policies to decide whether they were enlightened or self-serving

How did Wolsey tackle the problem of enclosure and why was he so concerned about it? Another domestic issue that Wolsey tackled was the issue of Enclosure. He used the legal system to deal with people who enclosed land illegally. Enclosure meant that a piece of land was taken into private ownership and marked off by hedges, fences or some kind of boundary. If a landowner’s strips were widely scattered, he might try to ‘engross’ them, to form a consolidated land-holding. This could be achieved through an amicable exchange of lands with neighbours, but it might require threats or financial pressures. The landowner might also find some excuse to annex all, or part of the common land of a village, and deny its use to others. Because looking after sheep needed fewer men than growing corn, the landowner would then need to employ less men, leaving villagers unemployed.

Rotation exercise Enclosure: Read and highlight the key issues from the worksheet. Do you agree with argument a or b? Profiteering: Read pages 114 of Lee and answer the following questions: What is profiteering? How did Wolsey tackle profiteering? Finance: Read pages then answer the following questions: 1.How did Wolsey reform the tax system? (mention Tenths and Fifteenths and the subsidy) 2.What was the Amicable Grant? 3.Why did Wolsey impose this tax in 1525? 4.How did people react to the imposition of the Amicable Grant? Extension – source analysis – Amicable Grant

Profiteering Read pages 114 of Lee and answer the following questions: What is profiteering? How did Wolsey tackle profiteering?

Finance Read pages then answer the following questions: 1.How did Wolsey reform the tax system? (mention Tenths and Fifteenths and the subsidy) 2.What was the Amicable Grant? 3.Why did Wolsey impose this tax in 1525? 4.How did people react to the imposition of the Amicable Grant?

Evaluate Wolsey's domestic policies to decide whether they were enlightened or self-serving