Unit 1: Thomas Cromwell

Question 1

Thomas Cromwell -

Answer 1

• Cromwell ensured henry was head of church and state, ensuring break from home happened, so henry became supreme head of church in 1534
• beuracratic system - still used today
• transformed role of parliament and conformed wales and england
• he worked on royal divorce ; church and monasteries
• central co-ordinated base in london
• exchequer introduced, and chamber looked after royal household
• court of augmentation - monastic money
• Loades; ‘he was a systemiser’
• Elton; ‘tudor revolution’
• Guy; ‘ cromwell was an administrative genius’