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This chapter uses the records of hundreds of parishes and boroughs to see how communities coped with the pressures of war in Henry VIII’s England. At the king’s command they bought and maintained up-to-date weapons and armour, including heavy artillery, pikes, handguns, and the drums necessary to help men march in time. They fortified the coasts and set up warning beacons. They mustered their inhabitants regularly and began to train them. To cope with all these demands, communities strained their financial resources, plundering the church or taxing their inhabitants, and developed new mechanisms of local government, concentrating power in the hands of urban oligarchies and parish elites.
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This chapter uses the records of hundreds of parishes and boroughs to see how communities coped with the pressures of war in Henry VIII’s England.
At the king’s command they bought and maintained up-to-date weapons and armour, including heavy artillery, pikes, handguns, and the drums necessary to help men march in time.
They fortified the coasts and set up warning beacons.
They mustered their inhabitants regularly and began to train them.
To cope with all these demands, communities strained their financial resources, plundering the church or taxing their inhabitants, and developed new mechanisms of local government, concentrating power in the hands of urban oligarchies and parish elites.
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