Causes Of The Pilgrimage Of Grace Flashcards
Economic
Gentry objected to increase taxation
Peasants had economic demands exacerbated by poor harvests in 1535 and 1536
1534 tax
Subsidy act
Statue
Of uses which regulated inheritance of land
Peasant tax
Cattle and sheep tax,
Gressam (tenancy tax),
rack renting and
enclosure of common land
Repeal of tax on
Cattle and sheep demanded in York articles
Pontefract articles demanded that the
Gressam be charged no more than every 2 years and demanded the end to enclosures
Cumberland commons
Rose on their own after Bigod’s arrest in protest at overcharging of rents on the earl of Cumberlands land
Political
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
No march
In London from Yorkshire
Made a truce
With Norfolk in Doncaster and later offered clarification in form of pontefract articles- willing to negotiate rather than fight
Oath
Of pilgrims in Yorkshire swore loyalty and only criticised ‘evil councillors’
Nobles wanted Low born
Like Wolsey- nobles wanted to destroy
Nobles wanted to Destroy architect
Of subsidy bill and statue of used
Nobles wanted to Destroy architect
Of religious changes
Lady Mary
Reinstated requested in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire and pontefract articles
Lord Hussey’s wife
Arrested due to calling her ‘princess mary’- political requests could be due to religious objection to Protestant church
Earl of Northumberland
Had been forced to name his heir as Henry
Increased statue of
Statue law rather than common law since the break with Rome
Request for second parliament
In York or Nottingham made in pontefract articles
Pontefract articles also requested
‘Common laws may have place as was used in the beginning of you grace’s reign’
Any rebel who disagreed
With kings supremacy wanted the treason act removed because it punished words as well as deeds- pontefract articles requested repeal
Religious
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
The act of the dissolution
Of the smaller monasteries 1536 made the break visible at local level
Lincolnshire only reference is grievance
About the dissolution of the monasteries
Yorkshire rebels actually restore
16 of the 55 closed institutions
Pontefract articles call for punishment for
Leigh and Layton, cromwells commissioner’s responsible for monastic visitations
Lincolnshire rising precipitated by
Heanage’s arrival in Louth to inspect the parish church’s property (echoed Valor Ecclesiasticus which preceded dissolution of the monasteries)
Peasants contributed to the upkeep
Of the parish churches and were aggrieved property would be seized
Rebels in Yorkshire march under the
Banner of Christ and swore oath ‘for the love of almighty god’