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England under the Tudors was a society striving for law and order, for the secure peaceful background to people’s lives which has been frequently seen, in previous and later centuries, as the basic prerequisite of a civilised society. But, as at other periods, the Tudor thirst for order claimed many victims and pursued its own ends regardless of some of the most basic human values. Fifteenth-century society in England had felt the weakening influence of the vacuum at its summit — the monarchy. The first task of the Tudor monarchy was to restore the power and prestige of the Crown. From this followed the general reassertion of royal government throughout the realm: once more the monarch ruled England.
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Cited by A. Harding, The Law Courts of Medieval England (London, 1973) p. 107.
Elton, The Tudor Constitution (Cambridge, 1960) p. 159.
A. Harding, The Law Courts of Medieval England (London, 1973) p. 107.
Cited by I. S. Leadam, Select Cases in the Court of Requests, 1497–1569 (London: Selden Society, 1898) pp. xv, xvi.
Cited by G. R. Elton, The Tudor Constitution (Cambridge, 1960 ), p. 188.
P. Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (London, 1967) p. 407.
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Powell, K., Cook, C. (1977). The Judicature and the Courts. In: English Historical Facts 1485–1603. Palgrave Historical and Political Facts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01913-7_3
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