Tudor justice, law enforcement and the organization of military forces including news ships such as the Mary Rose

1. Henry VIII
Law Order and Armed Forces

2. Law and Order
1509-47 2013/14
Robbery 57,818
Theft 1,800,000
Robbery and theft ~2,000/yr
Population ~3,000,000 56,600,000

3. Attainder
Loss of estates
Loss of property and ability to will property
1509-1534 2 cases
1534-1547 122 cases

4. Treason: 1351 Act (still on the books)
– Compass or imagine the Death of our Lord the
King, or of our Lady his Queen or of their eldest
Son and Heir
– Violate the King's Companion, or the King's eldest
Daughter unmarried, or the Wife the King's eldest
Son and Heir
– Levy War against our Lord the King in his Realm, or
be adherent to the King's Enemies in his Realm,
giving to them Aid and Comfort in the Realm.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw3Stat5/25/2/section/II

5. Executions - religion
Henry VIII
– Protestants 66
– Catholics 132
Edward VI
– Protestants 2

6. Henry VIII’s Army
• Large wards(1544, over 10,000)
– Vanguard, Battle, Rearguard
• Companies of 100 men with a captain and
sub-captain
• Continental armies more consistently broken
into manageable units

7. Artillery

8. Artillery

9. Pikemen, Archers, Artillery

10. Henry’s Army
• Only standing army is Yeomen of the Guard
• Forces raised by nobles
• Mercenaries

11. Supply
• Laborers, millers, bakers, butchers
• Cartwrights
• Cornish miners

12. Tents

13. Equipment - Archers
• Bows unchanged from
late Medieval design
• Addition of quivers
• Bracers
Long-bows, Mary Rose

14. Equipment – Bills and pikes
• 1544 Muster
– 1073 billmen
– 380 pikemen
– Seek mercenary pikemen Bill

15. Anthony Roll, Mary Rose

16. Mary Rose at
Portsmouth

17. Archer’s Bracer, Mary Rose

18. Navigation – the log, the knot the logbook
Distance between knots = 50 feet

19. Brass cannon
Mary Rose

20. The sailor from head to toe

22. Rolls of bandages and a urethral syringe

23. Tudor Fiddle, Mary Rose