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kings council |
supported him in making key decisions around 227 men recorded as attending working council was much smaller with 6-7 members main functions: advise the king, administer the realm on the kings behalf, make legal judgements |
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3 main types of councillor |
members of the nobility such as lord daubeney and dynham (working council rarely included great magnates) churchmen such as john morton and richard fox who had legal training laymen (gentry or lawyers) skilled administrators like sir reginald bray and edmund dudley |
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the council could meet |
without the king and you didn’t need to be a member to advise him - lady margaret beaufort |
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the great council |
house of lords occasional not permanent body only met 5 times in total related to national security gave nobles decisions |
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the council learned |
led by bray maintain kings revenue and exploit his prerogative rights bonds and recognisances not recognised court of law so no chance to appeal caused fear and anger maintain kings authority and gain finances empson and dudley after bray’s death ran council learned created enemies like bishop fox and sit thomas lovell |
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court and household |
relied on royal court- centre of government wealth=power, court was generous and magnificent rewarded status through patronage gain support of king |
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levels to the court |
household proper- looking after king, courtiers and guests, supervised by lord steward chamber proceeded over by the lord chamberlain, 1495 william stanley treason w/ perkin warbeck privy chamber made it more difficult to contact henry |
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parliament |
house of commons and house of lords- met occasionally, not central gvmt two main functions: pass laws and grant taxes local issues brought up by MPs |
