Early Tudors Vocab

1. a person responsible for keeping the peace in their local parish and appointed by the Justices of the Peace
5. a person entitled to heraldic arms
6. a medieval joust
7. Latin, meaning by the will of God
8. a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806.
11. Semi-independent lordships in Wales and the border ruled by powerful English Lords.
14. a piece of land attached to a manor and retained by the owner for their own use
15. a town sending representatives to Parliament
16. a feudal tenant entirely subject to a lord or manor to whom he paid dues and services in return for land.

2. a district under a bishop's control; a diocese
3. a piece of land serving as part of a clergyman's benefice and providing income
4. a parliamentary grant to the sovereign for state needs
5. the forfeiture of land and civil rights suffered as a consequence of a sentence of death for treason or felony.
9. a person who takes a position of power or importance illegally or by force
10. permanent and absolute tenure of land or property with freedom to dispose of it at will
12. an official distributor of alms
13. an official supervising a landowner's estate