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Henry VIIILaw Order and Armed Forces
Law and Order
1509-47 2013/14
Robbery 57,818
Theft 1,800,000
Robbery and theft ~2,000/yr
Population ~3,000,000 56,600,000
Attainder
Loss of estates
Loss of property and ability to will property
1509-1534 2 cases
1534-1547 122 cases
Treason: 1351 Act (still on the books)
– Compass or imagine the Death of our Lord the King, or of our Lady his Queen or of their eldest Son and Heir
– Violate the King's Companion, or the King's eldest Daughter unmarried, or the Wife the King's eldest Son and Heir
– Levy War against our Lord the King in his Realm, or be adherent to the King's Enemies in his Realm, giving to them Aid and Comfort in the Realm.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw3Stat5/25/2/section/II
Executions - religion
Henry VIII
– Protestants 66
– Catholics 132
Edward VI
– Protestants 2
Henry VIII’s Army
• Large wards(1544, over 10,000)
– Vanguard, Battle, Rearguard
• Companies of 100 men with a captain and sub-captain
• Continental armies more consistently broken into manageable units
Artillery
Artillery
Pikemen, Archers, Artillery
Henry’s Army
• Only standing army is Yeomen of the Guard
• Forces raised by nobles
• Mercenaries
Supply
• Laborers, millers, bakers, butchers
• Cartwrights
• Cornish miners
Tents
Equipment - Archers
• Bows unchanged from late Medieval design
• Addition of quivers
• Bracers
Long-bows, Mary Rose
Equipment – Bills and pikes• 1544 Muster
– 1073 billmen
– 380 pikemen
– Seek mercenary pikemen Bill
Anthony Roll, Mary Rose
Mary Rose at Portsmouth
Archer’s Bracer, Mary Rose
Navigation – the log, the knot the logbookDistance between knots = 50 feet
Brass cannonMary Rose
The sailor from head to toe
Rolls of bandages and a urethral syringe
Tudor Fiddle, Mary Rose