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Their personal knowledge of the law stemmed chiefly from the pressing need to defend the titles to their estates from predators. These concerns and the complex nature of late medieval land law provided many landholding gentleman with enough legal experience for them to be classed as skilled amateur lawyers.

— Sean Cunningham Henry VII (2007)

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Henry’s primary concern was to enforce orthodoxy, since late medieval heresy was never far away from political rebellion in the eyes of the crown.

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