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