The historiography of Tudor economic legislation has been preoccupied with brace questions: firstly whether any consistent economic planning.

The historiography of Tudor economic legislation has been preoccupied with brace questions: firstly whether any consistent economic planning, or simply expedient reactions to various enigmas can be discerned in Elizabethan policy; and secondly whether and to what expansion policy was imposed "from above" from William Cecil and the privy council, or influenced "from below" on local and factional lobbying. Since the 1980 the research of Geoffrey Elton and his successors has lengthen outed our understanding of Tudor parliaments; over and above the standard accounts of Elizabethan

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