Tudor period candidates. For example, The 55 JPs in Devonshire holding office in 1592 included: The cultural achievements of the Elizabethan era have long attracted scholars, and since the 1960s they have conducted intensive research on the social history of England. The House of Tudor produced five monarchs who ruled during this period (excluding Lady Jane Grey). Tudor period The Tudor period is the period between 1485 and 1603 in England and Wales and includes the Elizabethan period during the reign of Elizabeth I until 1603. The Tudor period coincides with the dynasty of the House of Tudor in England whose first
Artists of the Tudor court debate also circles around identification of possible portraits of Lady Jane Grey. The royal accounts for the period survive, but are not always easy to interpret. Payments often covered expensive materials, and in many cases the wages of assistants had to be paid out of them. Some regular annuities, usually supplemented by payments for specific works, are given below. But recipients were expected to give works to the monarch, at New Year or on their birthday. Royal annuities: The sums spent on metalwork, building palaces, and by Henry on tapestries, dwarfed these figures. Artists of the Tudor court The artists