Ontario High School History of England . ep about them hordes of retainers, who wore the livery, or uniform, oftheir lord and were ready tofight for him in any , in turn, was pledged tomaintain their cause when theytook action against others, orwere themselves assailed, eitherby open force, or in the lawcourts. Such retainers formedan armed body likely, in theirown or in their lords interest,.Elizabeth OF York, Queen OF ^o set the laWS at VII (1465-1503) -n, • ^ u i 4. • j 4. Previous rulers had tried tocheck these evils, but it was Henry who 1487 he passed
Ontario High School History of England . ep about them hordes of retainers, who wore the livery, or uniform, oftheir lord and were ready tofight for him in any , in turn, was pledged tomaintain their cause when theytook action against others, orwere themselves assailed, eitherby open force, or in the lawcourts. Such retainers formedan armed body likely, in theirown or in their lords interest,.Elizabeth OF York, Queen OF ^o set the laWS at VII (1465-1503) -n, • ^ u i 4. • j 4. Previous rulers had tried tocheck these evils, but it was Henry who 1487 he passed the Statute of Liveiy and Maintenancewhich imposed heavy penalties on those who kept up bandsof retainers. The Court of Star Chamber.—Henrys merit was that heenforced the laws. He formed a committee of his councilinto a new court which came ultimately to be known asthe Star Chamber. Its chief business was to try powerfuloffenders. Henry sent few victims to the scaffold, but hemade those who broke the law pay fines so heavy as, in. THE TUDOR MONARCHY 185 some cases, to be ruinous. Two lawyers, Dudley andEmpson, hunted down law-breakers with great skill, andthe king reaped enormous profits from the fines Henry himself acted as informer. He visitedthe Earl of Oxford, an old and tried friend who had foughtfor him at Bosworth, and on leaving the castle found twolong lines of men in livery drawn up to do him he expressed wonder that Oxford should need somany domestic servants, his host told him that the men inhis uniform were not servants but retainers, who had beensummoned for this service. The kings answer was thathe could not permit the law thus to be violated, and it issaid that Oxford was fined the enormous sum of 15,000marks, quite equal to £100,000 at the present day. 2. Relations of Henry VII with Ireland andScotland The despotic rule of Henry.—Henry was really a doubt, the belief that Parliament alone might makelaws and vote
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