By constructing an account of events before, during and after the 1530's assess the significance of political power in England and Wales. You should refer to developments of approximately 200 years.

In order to attribute significance to an event, it is important to consider events alongside other developments over a long period of time. A single event can be identified as a trend, turning point, dead-end, continuity, false dawn, shooting star or discontinuity. In this essay I will identify lines of development within the essay in order to aid me in attributing significance to political power in England and Wales. They will be Religion, Powers of Parliament, Authority of Monarchy, Union of England and Wales as well as Admin, law and finance. I will start with Religion.

It could be argued that there was a trend in leading the Monarch to being head of state. Events contributing to this pace of change, at about 1517, Martin Luther, a German Monk, went to Rome and found they had women and children who were over nourished while others were hungry; the system was too hierarchical. Luther disliked this, the Bible being in Latin, and the Pope

It could be argued that the organisation of Parliament could be seen as a turning point. The government was now very efficient as there was an innering of the council which became a small efficient body called the Privy Council. This was a break from the past as before there was the kings council which was shapeless, very large, clumsy and had no order to doing things. The way in which parliament made laws changed, there was now the use of a committee which set the way for law making.

It could be argued there as a turning point in the ways in which laws were made by the monarch and parliament. There was now legislative supremacy in other words the laws that were written were supreme, monarchy and parliament were integrated together in the law making process. The king could have issued a royal decree, an official command that he is supreme and he alone but he chose to have a parliament.

If you look at the event in which Henry sold off his monastic lands, 1536, it is paradoxical as on the one hand, Henry sold his land in order to gain more money and his financial situation had a zenith, a surplus, but on the other hand the monasteries could have meant long term stability. So, in strengthening Henry in the short term but it weakened monarchy in the long term.

He started to sell off monasteries and monastic lands to friends which could have meant long-term stability; the monks were found other jobs and retrained. The monasteries were depended on, as they provide

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Approximate Word count = 993
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)