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fideidefenswhore · 8 months ago

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Henry VII had been severely shaken by the death of his eldest son, and even more by the death of his wife in 1503. His third son Edmund had already died, aged 16 months, in 1500. It was at this time that Henry's mounting anxieties led him to impose increasing restrictions on some of his subjects, largely through the use of the system of large suspended fines known as bonds and recognizances. The escalation in his use of these from 1502 onwards suggests a man increasingly apprehensive about security. After Henry VII died, his minister Dudley produced a great list of the unjust exactions he had helped perpetrate in a bid to right some of the wrongs done in this way and secure 'relief for the dead king's soul.'

Henry VIII, Lucy Wooding

#lucy wooding #she seems to walk a lottt of this back in tudor england which is...interesting #altho in general i feel like that excerpt has been misinterpreted or maybe the implications of it are just being read. maybe it was just #a build on this...#tl; dr that his policies seem to have been exaggerated for either propagandistic purposes during hviii's reign #and/or by nobility thereof to gain things they wanted (such as the duke of buckingham who said in the time of henry's father #'no one had justice'#which is a little...uhm. the worst victims of that time were ; as always the least wealthy . the least titled. obviously )#does not necessitate that there wasn't some truth in their origin as well #but i do like that she dates it to 1500 not 1503 as that is accurately when these policies unfurled #it always being blamed on the historical fridging of eoy has always struck me as rather gross.#just another way to use her as a prop bcus his defenders #don't like the black mark on his legacy these policies just indubitably...were #*misread

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