It was but twice convened during the last thirteen years of Henry's reign.
The chief aim of the king was the accumulation of a treasure which should relieve him from the need of ever appealing for its aid.

Subsidies granted for the support of wars which Henry evaded formed the base of a royal treasure which was swelled by the revival of dormant claims of the crown, by the exaction of fines for the breach of forgotten tenures, and by a host of petty extortions.

Benevolences were again revived.

A dilemma of Henry's minister, which received the name of "Morton's fork," extorted gifts to the exchequer from men who lived handsomely on the ground that their wealth was manifest, and from those who lived plainly on the plea that economy had made them wealthy.

Still greater sums were drawn from those who were compromised in the revolts which chequered the king's rule.
It was with his own hand that Henry endorsed the rolls of fines imposed after every insurrection.