Causes Of The Pilgrimage Of Grace Flashcards

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Economic

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Gentry objected to increase taxation

Peasants had economic demands exacerbated by poor harvests in 1535 and 1536

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2
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1534 tax

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Subsidy act

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3
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Statue

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Of uses which regulated inheritance of land

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4
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Peasant tax

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Cattle and sheep tax,
Gressam (tenancy tax),
rack renting and
enclosure of common land

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5
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Repeal of tax on

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Cattle and sheep demanded in York articles

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Pontefract articles demanded that the

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Gressam be charged no more than every 2 years and demanded the end to enclosures

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Cumberland commons

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Rose on their own after Bigod’s arrest in protest at overcharging of rents on the earl of Cumberlands land

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8
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Political

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No direct political challenge to Henry in Lincolnshire or Yorkshire
Nobles wanted to destroy Cromwell
Lady Mary reinstated
Northern nobles and gentry wanted restoration of traditional regional independence
Repeal of the treason act

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9
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No march

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In London from Yorkshire

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10
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Made a truce

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With Norfolk in Doncaster and later offered clarification in form of pontefract articles- willing to negotiate rather than fight

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11
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Oath

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Of pilgrims in Yorkshire swore loyalty and only criticised ‘evil councillors’

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12
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Nobles wanted Low born

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Like Wolsey- nobles wanted to destroy

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13
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Nobles wanted to Destroy architect

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Of subsidy bill and statue of used

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14
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Nobles wanted to Destroy architect

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Of religious changes

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15
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Lady Mary

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Reinstated requested in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire and pontefract articles

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16
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Lord Hussey’s wife

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Arrested due to calling her ‘princess mary’- political requests could be due to religious objection to Protestant church

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17
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Earl of Northumberland

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Had been forced to name his heir as Henry

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18
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Increased statue of

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Statue law rather than common law since the break with Rome

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19
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Request for second parliament

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In York or Nottingham made in pontefract articles

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20
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Pontefract articles also requested

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‘Common laws may have place as was used in the beginning of you grace’s reign’

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21
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Any rebel who disagreed

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With kings supremacy wanted the treason act removed because it punished words as well as deeds- pontefract articles requested repeal

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22
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Religious

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Objections to the dissolution of the monasteries
Peasants concern over rumours that the Parish churches would be targeted after the monasteries
Objection to the break with Rome ensuing changes

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23
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The act of the dissolution

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Of the smaller monasteries 1536 made the break visible at local level

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24
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Lincolnshire only reference is grievance

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About the dissolution of the monasteries

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25
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Yorkshire rebels actually restore

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16 of the 55 closed institutions

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26
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Pontefract articles call for punishment for

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Leigh and Layton, cromwells commissioner’s responsible for monastic visitations

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27
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Lincolnshire rising precipitated by

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Heanage’s arrival in Louth to inspect the parish church’s property (echoed Valor Ecclesiasticus which preceded dissolution of the monasteries)

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28
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Peasants contributed to the upkeep

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Of the parish churches and were aggrieved property would be seized

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29
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Rebels in Yorkshire march under the

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Banner of Christ and swore oath ‘for the love of almighty god’

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30
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York articles criticism of the politically

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Appointed reformist bishops

31
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Pontefract articles ask for suppression of

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‘Heresies’ and restoration of the Pope as head of the church

32
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Wensleydale

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Objected to Gressum tax

33
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Richmondshire

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Resentment that Cromwell had intervened in a murder case

34
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Halifax

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Resentment at government attempts to eradicate ‘flocking’

35
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Cumberland

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Complained about tenants rights

36
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Westmorland

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Hostile to enclosures

37
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Beverley

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Anger about changing composition of kings council

38
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Almost all host armies (9 in total) resented

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Suppression of the monasteries. Only west Cumberland did not mention them but did complain about the lack of feast days.
Wide spread concern about the ‘alteration of the power of the bishops of Rome’

39
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Captain Poverty

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First appeared at the massive Richmond assembly on October 15th and a document emerged from this stating a number of demands including the restoration of monasteries
Captain poverty’s letter raised all but 2 of the 8 hosts as it was copied

40
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Loss of holy

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Days

41
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New taxes on

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Baptism, marriage and funerals

42
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Arrival of Cromwells

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Commissioners in the north led to Lincolnshire rising- spontaneous

43
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Francis Bigod

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Lead the rising in Cumberland but he was Protestant so had a political reason not religious

44
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Low born

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Thomas Cromwell agreed the gentry and nobles who sought his removal

45
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Wanted to reinstate Lady

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Mary- Catherine of Aragon’s daughter after he divorced Catherine and married Anne Boleyn. Catherine was catholic

46
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Percies feared the loss of their

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Social and economic standing

47
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Bad harvests in

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1535 and 1536 resulted in crop failures and price rises

48
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West riding began to

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Enclose land

49
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Hated the extension of

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Entry fines (a payment charged when tenants took over new land)

50
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Subsidy tax should

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Not have been levied as it was peacetime and there was no war

51
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Statue

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Of uses forced the gentry to pay feudal dues when their estates passed to their heirs

52
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People in the north felt excluded

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From London and wanted a parliament in York or Nottingham

53
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Lincolnshire rising

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1-18th October 1536

54
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Yorkshire rising

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October 8th to 6th December 1536

55
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Cumberland rising

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January to February 1537

56
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Was a cross

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Class rebellion which over 40,000 men were involved

57
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Evidence of causes

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York articles 
Lincolnshire rebels grievances 
The oath of the honourable men of the Pilgrimage of Grace 1536
Pontefract articles
Sawley Ballard
58
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Crim, Cram and Rich

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Ministers Cromwell, Cranmer and Richard were demanded to be sacked as they were low blood

59
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Old wealth and peace

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Of the spirituality- sawley Ballard meaning go back to the old ways

60
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Pontefract articles listed

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Religious grievances as 9/24 demands

61
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5 wounds

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Of Christ

62
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Pilgrims

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Oath

63
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Complaint about reformist

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Bishops like Cramner

64
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Criticism of the dissolution

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Of the monasteries

65
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Cromwell intervention

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In a murder case

66
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Complaints about the subsidy act

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1534

67
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Enclosures on

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Cliffords land

68
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Gressum tax

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Reduced

69
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Resentment at government attempts to eradicate

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Flocking has

70
Q

Only west Cumberland did not mention

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Monasteries

71
Q

Captain poverty

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Letee the r was taken around the north and demanded restoration of smaller monasteries

72
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Heneage

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Commisioner captured at Louth

73
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Who are the three people in the Sawley Ballard

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Crim, cram and rich

74
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Which place did not mention monasteries or religion as an issue

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West Cumberland