Challenging Religious change, 1533-1537

Question 1

What position did Henry 8 promote Cromwell to

Answer 1

Vicegerent in Spirituals

Question 2

Give 3 ways that Cromwell consolidated preaching in churches

Answer 2

• Controlled through government licenses
• Imprisonment of clergymen who continued preaching authority of the pope
• Cromwell’s injunctions of 1536

Question 3

What was the act of 10 articles

Answer 3

Attempt to define the doctrine of the new English church, mostly in line with Catholic beliefs

Question 4

Which influential opponents were executed for treason in 1535

Answer 4

Sir Thomas More

John Fisher

Question 5

How many religious houses and people in religious orders were there by the 1530s

Answer 5

900 houses

12,000 people

Question 6

How much money did the dissolution of the monasteries make between 1536-1547

Answer 6

£1.3 million

Question 7

What was on the banner for the Pilgrimage of Grace

Answer 7

Five wounds of Christ

Question 8

Why was the 1534 tax subsidy controversial

Answer 8

It was made during peace time

Question 9

Entry fines definition

Answer 9

Tax paid when tenant dies and succeeded by heir

Question 10

Enclosure definition

Answer 10

Smaller holdings of land turned into bigger farms

Question 11

Who was the imperial ambassador to England

Answer 11

Eustace Chaupuys

Question 12

When was the Act of Uses

Answer 12

1535

Question 13

The Act of Uses

Answer 13

The King could not claim land when the owner died

Question 14

What was the date of the Lincolnshire rebellion

Answer 14

2nd - 11th of October 1536

Question 15

What were the Lincolnshire rebels main grievances on the 9th October 1536

Answer 15

• Dissolution of the smaller monasteries
• ‘evil counsel’
• Henry taking advice from men of low birth
• The promotion of men with reformer sympathies

Question 16

Who led the Lincolnshire rebels

Answer 16

Nicholas Melton

Question 17

What evidence is there to suggest that the rebels only had religious intentions at the start

Answer 17

• Peaceful intentions

- Restored 2 houses that had been dissolved

Question 18

What were the main locations where the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out

Answer 18

• Yorkshire
• Westmorland
• Cumberland
  ( Most of North and North East of England affected)

Question 19

How many rebels were there

Answer 19

30,000 with trained soldiers

Question 20

Size of Henrys army

Answer 20

8,000 men, had no choice but to negotiate with the rebels

Question 21

Why was the Duke of Norfolk a good choice for negotiations

Answer 21

Catholic sympathiser with a dislike for cromwell

Question 22

Why did Bigods rising fail

Answer 22

Not enough followers after the Pilgrimage of Grace
Bad timing
Henry used this as an excuse to punish the rebels who were brutally suppressed

Question 23

Which Nobles were involved in the Pilgrimage of Grace

Answer 23

Lord Darcy, Lord Hussey, Sir Thomas Percy, Sir Ingram Percy, Sir Robert Contestable

Question 24

How many members of the clergy were executed

Answer 24

6 abbots, 38 monks, 16 Parish priests

Question 25

Who remained loyal to Henry 8

Answer 25

Earl of Derby

Clifford family

Question 26

Which Yorkists claimants to the throne did Cromwell purge after the rebellions

Answer 26

Henry Courtenay, Henry Pole

Both executed for treason in 1538

Question 27

Which religious act was passed in 1539

Answer 27

The act of suppression of Religious houses

Question 28

How many rebel representatives did Henry agree to meet in the Pilgrimage of Grace

Answer 28

300

Question 29

How did Henry 8 execute Robert Aske after pardoning him

Answer 29

Tortured Aske until he gave up information that made him guilty of treason