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Who was the best Tudor monarch, and why was it Henry VII?
Literally, he had been the best force for stability. No pulling bullshit like his son tried to in foreign wars, no debasement of the coinage, no religious turbulence.
It's a damn shame only monarchs like Henry VIII and Elizabeth get the spotlight when Henry VII did such amazing things for England at the time.
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He's overshadowed by his controversial predecessor and his infamous son.
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>>3034325
>Charge what was at the time the middle and working class of England with bull shit made up crimes so that he culd bleed the dry.
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>>3035355
England was rich, but the english were poor. When one of the most important things you have to show as your legacy is a parallel bureacracy that takes money from your people without any rhyme or reason, you're not a good monarch.
Specially when the other thing you have to show as your legacy is a dumb son that wastes all that money by LARPing as middle ages knight.
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>>3035372
The later Tudors dismantled England's only poor relief (the Church), while providing nothing to replace it.
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>>3035526
>what are the elizabethan poor laws
Though desu your right it took several decades and in the meantime we can only guess at the huge suffering thos caused
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