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The most important force for change in early Tudor government is the most complex to analyse: the dynamic by which developments in different areas of governmental activity reinforced and amplified one another. Royal political control and the ability to provide effective justice interacted so closely that much of the time they blended into each other. Financial strength, whether derived from an enlarged crown estate or from intensified direct taxation, was made possible by tighter supervision of local elites, but in turn it facilitated expenditure — on magnificence, war, patronage and the suppression of rebellion — to make such supervision more palatable or less resistible. The growth of the state in the minds of its subjects, albeit fragmentary, encouraged the loyalty that submitted to political control, cooperated in the king’s judicial enterprise, and paid taxes.
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Gunn, S.J. (1995). Conclusion. In: Early Tudor Government, 1485–1558. British History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23965-8_6
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