Causes Of The Pilgrimage Of Grace

Question 1

Economic

Answer 1

Gentry objected to increase taxation

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

Question 2

1534 tax

Answer 2

Subsidy act

Question 3

Statue

Answer 3

Of uses which regulated inheritance of land

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Peasant tax

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Repeal of tax on

Answer 5

Cattle and sheep demanded in York articles

Question 6

Pontefract articles demanded that the

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Cumberland commons

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Political

Answer 8

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

Question 9

No march

Answer 9

In London from Yorkshire

Question 10

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

Question 11

Oath

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

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Nobles wanted Low born

Answer 12

Like Wolsey- nobles wanted to destroy

Question 13

Nobles wanted to Destroy architect

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Of subsidy bill and statue of used

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Nobles wanted to Destroy architect

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Of religious changes

Question 15

Lady Mary

Answer 15

Reinstated requested in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire and pontefract articles

Question 16

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

Question 17

Earl of Northumberland

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Had been forced to name his heir as Henry

Question 18

Increased statue of

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Statue law rather than common law since the break with Rome

Question 19

Request for second parliament

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In York or Nottingham made in pontefract articles

Question 20

Pontefract articles also requested

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

Question 21

Any rebel who disagreed

Answer 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

The act of the dissolution

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

Question 24

Lincolnshire only reference is grievance

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About the dissolution of the monasteries

Question 25

Yorkshire rebels actually restore

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16 of the 55 closed institutions

Question 26

Pontefract articles call for punishment for

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

Question 27

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)

Question 28

Peasants contributed to the upkeep

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Of the parish churches and were aggrieved property would be seized

Question 29

Rebels in Yorkshire march under the

Answer 29

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

Question 30

York articles criticism of the politically

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Appointed reformist bishops

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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

Question 32

Wensleydale

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Objected to Gressum tax

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Richmondshire

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Resentment that Cromwell had intervened in a murder case

Question 34

Halifax

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Resentment at government attempts to eradicate ‘flocking’

Question 35

Cumberland

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Complained about tenants rights

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Westmorland

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Hostile to enclosures

Question 37

Beverley

Answer 37

Anger about changing composition of kings council

Question 38

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’

Question 39

Captain Poverty

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Loss of holy

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Days

Question 41

New taxes on

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Baptism, marriage and funerals

Question 42

Arrival of Cromwells

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Commissioners in the north led to Lincolnshire rising- spontaneous

Question 43

Francis Bigod

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

Question 44

Low born

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Thomas Cromwell agreed the gentry and nobles who sought his removal

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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

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Percies feared the loss of their

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Social and economic standing

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Bad harvests in

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1535 and 1536 resulted in crop failures and price rises

Question 48

West riding began to

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Enclose land

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Hated the extension of

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

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Subsidy tax should

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

Question 51

Statue

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

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People in the north felt excluded

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From London and wanted a parliament in York or Nottingham

Question 53

Lincolnshire rising

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1-18th October 1536

Question 54

Yorkshire rising

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October 8th to 6th December 1536

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Cumberland rising

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January to February 1537

Question 56

Was a cross

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Class rebellion which over 40,000 men were involved

Question 57

Evidence of causes

Answer 57

``` York articles Lincolnshire rebels grievances The oath of the honourable men of the Pilgrimage of Grace 1536 Pontefract articles Sawley Ballard ```

Question 58

Crim, Cram and Rich

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

Question 59

Old wealth and peace

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

Question 60

Pontefract articles listed

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Religious grievances as 9/24 demands

Question 61

5 wounds

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Of Christ

Question 62

Pilgrims

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Oath

Question 63

Complaint about reformist

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Bishops like Cramner

Question 64

Criticism of the dissolution

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Of the monasteries

Question 65

Cromwell intervention

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In a murder case

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Complaints about the subsidy act

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1534

Question 67

Enclosures on

Answer 67

Cliffords land

Question 68

Gressum tax

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Reduced

Question 69

Resentment at government attempts to eradicate

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Flocking has

Question 70

Only west Cumberland did not mention

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Monasteries

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Captain poverty

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

Question 72

Heneage

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Commisioner captured at Louth

Question 73

Who are the three people in the Sawley Ballard

Answer 73

Crim, cram and rich

Question 74

Which place did not mention monasteries or religion as an issue

Answer 74

West Cumberland