In the year 1348 between 4 and 5 million people lived in England and Wales. Several plagues reduced the number of inhabitants to 2.5 million peole (England, Wales). There was a stagnation in population growth until 1520s. And so in the year 1525 2.26 million peole lived in England, when the population started rising until 1601 to the number of 4.1 million people.

In general the living standart declined as the population growed:

· the pressure on the food supplies made the food more expensive

· the wages of workers lost their finacial force; dropped 57 per cent since 1500

· Starvations: 1481-3, 1519-21, 1527-8, 1544-5, 1549-51, 1555-8, 1585-8, 1595-8 caused by poor harvests, bad weather

v born in 1457; son of Edmund Tudor and Magret Beaufort

v became king of England through personal fight: after defeating Richard III in the battle of Bosworth he proclaimed himself as the king of Enfland

v John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, ruled over England with the influence on Edward

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