Court of Wards and Liveries continued

Send us Fan Mail For roughly a century, the English Crown could sell a child's marriage to the highest bidder. This wasn't a scandal. It was the system, run by the Court of Wards and Liveries. This episode asks two questions. First: how many children were actually married under wardship? Second, a more personal one: after immersing myself in this subject for so long, have I inflated the Court's importance? Most people in Tudor England were never touched by it. Wardship fell on the landed clas...