1450: RoY Cause of Problems?

Question 1

Where did Jack Cade plan his rebellion?

Answer 1

White Hart Inn, Southwark

Question 2

What is the significance of the White Hart?

Answer 2

Symbol of Richard II, who was deposed as King in 1399

Question 3

What to and when did Jack Cade change his name?

Answer 3

Jack/John Mortimer, June 1450

Question 4

When did Sir William Oldhall visit York in Ireland?

Answer 4

July 1449

Question 5

When did Sir William Oldhall incite a rebellion in Ipswich?

Answer 5

March 1450

Question 6

When did York set off to return to England from Ireland?

Answer 6

August 1450

Question 7

When did York claim his right to advise the King?

Answer 7

September 1450

Question 8

Where, and with whom, did York tour in 1450 to gather support?

Answer 8

In East Anglia, with the Duke of Norfolk

Question 9

When did York march into London in 1450?

Answer 9

November 1450

Question 10

Who did York imitate, regarding the “communitas” and “commonweal”?

Answer 10

Jack Cade’s Rebels

Question 11

When did York save Somerset from a violent mob in London?

Answer 11

December 1450

Question 12

What did York explicitly want/not want, as stated in a letter to the King in Autumn 1450?

Answer 12

Wanted “reform”, didn’t want the throne

Question 13

What did many nobles think the Dartford Coup was an example of?

Answer 13

Treason

Question 14

Which nobles supported York 1450-53?

Answer 14

Devon + Norfolk (1450)
Devon + Cobham (1452)

Question 15

When was Sir William Oldhall Speaker of the House?

Answer 15

1450-51

Question 16

Who attempted to recognise York as heir presumptive, and when?

Answer 16

Thomas Young, in May 1451

Question 17

Through which line(s) was York heir presumptive?

Answer 17

Mortimer (Lionel, Duke of Clarence)
Yorkist (Edmund, Duke of York)

Question 18

Through which line(s) was Henry VI heir?

Answer 18

Lancastrian (John of Gaunt)