Land Rights Conflicts and Legislative Responses in Early Tudor England——An Examination Centered on Enfeoffment to Use
After the Norman Conquest,England entered a feudal society and formed a lord-vassal relationship by fief enfeoffment.The vassals were obligated to fulfill feudal duties and were restricted from freely disposing of land.By the late Middle Ages,the vassals extensively resorted to enfeoffment to use for evasion,resulting in and intensifying land rights conflicts between the two sides.Early Tudor England marked a pivotal phase in the transformation from a feudal kingdom to a nation-state.When King Henry Ⅷ broke away from the church control externally and strengthened the national control internally,he orchestrated comprehensive regulations on enfeoffment to control land flow,secure feudal rights,and establish the King's authority by leveraging the Parliament's authority.The process of legislation was quite convoluted,with the King pushing for the enactment of the Statute of Uses and the Statute of Enrollments by dividing parliamentarians and conveying benefits,and then quickly compromising due to general dissatisfaction and domestic riots.Although the effect of the Statutes was not what the King had hoped for,the Uses gained legitimacy and the relationship between the subjects of the Uses was recognized.
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