Edward VI

Question 1

What were the socio-economic causes of ketts rebellion

Answer 1

-illegal enclosure - landowners were enclosing their lands which was putting tenant farmers out of a home and job
-population increase - rose from 2.3 million in 1525 to 3 million in 1551 - this meant work was harder to find
-food demands - made worse by bad harvests in 1545 and 1549 and an increase in arable land being used for sheep farming
-vagrancy act
-debasement - taking precious metals out of coins and led to inflation and foreign merchants being reluctant to accept english coins
-loss of commonland - villagers had no where to keep their animals so couldnt get manure to provide nutrients for their crops

Question 2

What were the political causes of ketts rebellion

Answer 2

-vagrancy act
-Somerset - when commissioners investigations failed he took direct action and ploughed up illegal enclosures eg land owned by the Duke of Norfolk - this encourage commoners to also take action
-commonwealth men - group of people with strong protestant beliefs - eg Somerset and Hales

Question 3

What were the religious causes of ketts rebellion

Answer 3

-commonwealth men - group of people with strong protestant beliefs - eg Somerset and Hales
-dissolution of the monasteries - alms and charity that they provided were no longer available further pushing the poor into poverty

Question 4

what was the vagrancy act

Answer 4

-if an abled bodied person was out of work for mote than three days they were to be branded with a V and sold into slavery for two years
-children of vagrants to be taken to work
-was seen as an attack on the poor and so unpopular many authorities refused to enforce it