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4 - The Settlement of the Boulonnais

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2019

Neil Murphy
Affiliation:
Northumbria University, Newcastle
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This chapter examines the manner by which Henry VIII integrated the lands he conquered in France in the 1540s into his English kingdom. Henry and his ministers sought to rebuild the Boulonnais in the image of lowland England, and they developed an agricultural policy and settlement strategy which was designed to secure English control over the region. It considers the role which cultivation played in asserting claims to territory, as well as conflicts regarding natural resources and the control of lands. It analyses in detail the workings of the special commission which implemented the Tudor monarch’s plans for the re-settlement of the Boulonnais, as well as the methods it used to encourage English settlers to take up farms in the region. It examines the means by which these lands were anglicised, considering the introduction of English laws and customs into the Boulonnais as well as the administrative systems required to enforce them. The chapter also looks more widely at the economic conditions of these lands, considering both the redevelopment of commercial life at Boulogne and the return of French peasants to the land to act as a rural labour force. The final part of the chapter examines the manner by which English forms of worship were imposed on the region as a further means to anglicise these lands.
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The Tudor Occupation of Boulogne
Conquest, Colonisation and Imperial Monarchy, 1544–1550
, pp. 106 - 169
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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