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Period: 1480 to 1490
Evidence of a greater move to Sheep Farming around this time.
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1485
Navigation Act
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1486
Henry removes the trading restrictions on Foreign Merchants
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1487
Export of unfinished cloth by foreign merchants is banned. (again)
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1489
Navigation Act (2)
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1492
The Treaty of Etaples
One of the things Henry received from this was a £5000 annual pension.
It also largely removed the trade restrictions on wool (again) -
1495
The Council Learned in the Law is formed under the supervision of Sir Reginald Bray
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1496
Intercursus Magnus
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1497
Most of the remaining trading restrictions are removed.
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1503
Sir Reginald Bray dies and is replaced on the council learned by Edmund Dudley
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1506
Intercursus Malus
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1507
Magnus Intercursus is reinstated
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1509
Empson and Dudley are arrested and executed.
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1509
Henry VII dies.
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1510
The Council Learned in the Law is officially abolished.
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1517
Torrigano completes his funeral effigies of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
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1536
Beginning of the dissolution of the Monasteries
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1544
Henry VIII Begins the debasement of the coingage
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1548
Somerset introduces the Enclosure Commission
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1555
Harvest Failure
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1556
Harvest Failure
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1561
Elizabeth completely restores the Undebased coinage.
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1563
The Statute of Artificers is passed
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Harvest Failure
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Harvest Failure
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Harvest Failure
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harvest Failure
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The Poor Law is enacted
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There is significant agitation in Parliament over the use of Monopolies.
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The poor law is revised