Henry VII
historical figure · 6 works · 7 mentions · 9 anchored passages
11 Henry VII · 19 Henry VII · 3 Henry VII · Henry VII. · Henry the seventh · King Henry the Seventh
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Henry VII, King of England, cited as a precedent who did not collect Tonnage and Poundage until Parliament granted it.
Very few of your predecessors had it for life, until the reign of Henry VII, who was so far from conceiving he had any right thereunto, that although he granted commissions for collecting certain duties and customs due by law, yet he made no commissions for receiving the subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage, until the same was granted unto him in Parliament.
and that in the succeeding times of King Richard the Third, King Henry the Seventh, King Henry the Eighth, King Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, the subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage was not only enjoyed by every of those Kings and Queens, from the death of each of them deceasing, until it was granted by Parliament unto the successor;
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
English king whose statute regulated the Star Chamber.
There is no doubt that the Court of Star Chamber was of higher antiquity than the statutes regulating it, 3 Henry VII.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
King of England under whom multiple jury qualification statutes were enacted.
—3 Henry VII.
”—11 Henry VII.
”—11 Henry VII.
The Genius of the Common Law
First Tudor king whose victory ended dynastic civil strife.
Lack of executive power had always been the weak point of the Common Law, and in order to keep faction permanently repressed, after Henry VII’s victory had closed the dynastic strife, more drastic methods were required.
Common Sense
English king in whom the houses of York and Lancaster were united, ending the Wars of the Roses
This contest began in the reign of Henry the sixth and was not entirely extinguished till Henry the seventh, in whom the families were united.
Law in a Free State
The English king in whose reign the fashion for long-toed shoes finally ended, despite centuries of clerical and legal opposition.
The same writer, speaking of the Early English period, tells us that “long toes were not entirely abandoned till Henry VII.