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Profiting from Religious Reform: The Land Rush of 1559

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Norman L. Jones
Norman L. Jones
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Utah State University
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‘Supremacy and Uniformity’, wrote A. F. Pollard, ‘occupied less of the time of parliament [in 1559] … than did the scramble for episcopal lands …’ This fact, apparent to anyone who glances at the Journal of the House of Commons for 1559, has been ignored by historians who wrote before Pollard and by those who wrote after him. Concerned only with bills dealing with religion, scholars failed to recognize that proposals concerning the distribution of ecclesiastical lands dominated the session. During the two months before Easter private land bills monopolized the Commons' time for three weeks, ruining any timetable the government might have had and helping to persuade, if not forcing, the queen to continue the session after Easter.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , June 1979 , pp. 279 - 294
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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2 Quoting from the inspeximus of the sentence of Mary's commission investigating Bonner's case. Cal. Pat. Rolls, Phil. & Mary, 1, 121.

3 H.L.R.O., Commons MS Journals, 1, fo. 189 v.

4 VCH, Hampshire, II, 66. H.L.R.O., Original Acts, 1 Eliz. I, no. 34. VCH, Hampshire, III, 33 concludes that Seymour had compounded with the bishop for the manors of Marwell and Owslebury because he was in possession in 1577. The author of the county history did not, apparently, know about the provisions of 1 Eliz. I, no. 34.

5 VCH, Hampshire, III, no. 418.

6 Ibid. IV, 278.

7 Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edw. VI, IV, 197.

8 VCH, Hampshire, II, 115.

9 H.L.R.O., Original Acts, 1 Eliz. I, no. 34.

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11 Ibid. fo. 194 v.

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16 H.L.R.O., Original Acts, 1 Eliz. I, no. 34.

17 H.L.R.O., Commons MS Journals, 1, fo. 198.

18 Ibid. fo. 201.

19 Ibid. fo. 198.

20 Ibid.

21 H.L.R.O., Original Acts, 1 Eliz. I, no. 34.

22 Journal of the House of Lords, I, 530.

23 H.L.R.O., Original Acts, 1 Eliz. I, no. 34.

24 Ibid.

25 Ibid.

26 Ibid.

27 H.L.R.O., Commons MS Journals, I, fo. 205.

28 H.L.R.O., Lords MS Journals, IV, 42.

29 Ibid. 31.

30 Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edw. VI, IV, 15.

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32 Ibid. III, 423–4.

33 Ibid. IV, 136.

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40 Ibid. 1, i, 94–5.

41 H.L.R.O., Commons MS Journals, I, fo. 201 v. ‘The bisshop of london in his proper persone shewing the untrouthe of the bill as he takes yt dyd conclude that the comyssioners for his deprivacion dyd not according to there commyssion and yet by his appeale as also by his lettres patents from Quene marye he standeth still bisshop and the graunts made by dr rydley voyde.’

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49 Ibid. fo. 204.

50 Ibid. fo. 208 v. The VCH Worcester, 111, 383, claims that Jobson, through the influence of the ‘Earl of Leicester’ (Dudley was actually still a mere lord), obtained an act confirming his title to Hartlebury in March 1558, despite the protest of the bishop. In this the county history is obviously incorrect. With or without Dudley's aid, Jobson did not get the act he sought.

51 VCH Worcester, III, 175.

52 Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edw. VI, v, 133–4.

53 Cat. Pat. Rolls, Mary, I, 377–8.

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55 Ibid. fo. 197. The description quoted is the entry for the second reading, fo. 203 V.

56 VCH Warwickshire, vi, 31.

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58 Ibid. fo. 199.

59 Ibid. fo. 200 v.

60 Ibid. fo. 203 v. The clerk wrote “Ingrossetur” after the entry of the second reading, but crossed it out.

61 Ibid. fo. 189.

62 Ibid. fo. 191.

63 Ibid. fo. 201.

64 Ibid. 201 v. It is marked ‘nova’, indicating a new draft of a bill already seen.

65 Ibid. fo. 204.

66 Ibid. fo. 212 v.

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72 H.L.R.O., Lords MS Journals, iv, 22.

73 Ibid. 23.

74 Ibid. 28.

75 Ibid. 29.

76 Dictionary of national biography.

77 H.L.R.O., Original Acts, 1 Eliz. 1, no. 31.

78 H.L.R.O., Lords MS Journals, iv, 25.

79 H.L.R.O., Original Acts, 1 Eliz. I, no. 31.

80 Ibid.

81 H.L.R.O., Commons MS Journals, 1, fo. 202 v.

82 H.L.R.O., Lords MS Journals, IV, 41.

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