Edward VI Flashcards
Lord protector
legal title given to a senior nobleman appointed to govern the kingdom on behalf of a child monarch
Edward Seymour
-1500-1552
-knighted by Henry VIII then elevated to the peerage as earl of Hertford
-Uncle of Edward VI
-after Henry VIII’s death he assumed the title of Duke of Somerset
-ruled England as Lord protector 1547-49
-later executed- autocratic rule+ unpopularity with the nobility- removed from power
mid- Tudor crisis
the between between 1547 and 1558 which witnessed a series of social, economic, religious, and political crises that mainly affected the governments of Edward VI and Mary I
social and economic changes
-population growth
-unemployment
-inflation
-lasting poverty and social mobility
-enclosures
-woolen industry
the vagrancy act
-1547
-harshest poor law of the period
-showed little concern for the poor
-savage attack on vagrants- vagrancy was seen by government as the reason for riots + rebellion
foldcourse
-this tradition allowed landlords to use their tenant’s lands and the common land to graze sheep
-led to tenants enclosing their arable land to protect from their landlord’s sheep
Escheator
a local official who was appointed to ensure that royal rights and privileges were upheld
-particularly in inquiry into crown rights over estates and property
Feodary
-an official employed in the Court of Wards and Liveries, a financial court set up in 1540
- duty was to search out potential heirs of landowners who held their land directly from the King
-open to bribery and corruption- like escheator - Kett’s rebels complained
Bondman
-a peasant (or serf) whose rights were extremely restricted and whose life was controlled by the lord of the manor
When was the battle of Dussindale?
27th August
When were the enclosure commissions?
June 1548
When did Somerset re-issue the enclosure commissions?
April 1549
When did Kett assume leadership of the rebels?
6th-8th July- when they attacked his enclosures
When was the camp at Mousehold Heath organized?
12th July
how many men did Kett have?
16,000
When did the earl of Warwick arrive and how many men did he have?
23rd August, 12,000
When did Kett leave Mousehold Heath and where did he go?
26th August, Dussindale
how many rebels were killed and how many of Warwick’s army were killed?
2000-3000 rebels, 40 of Warwick’s men
when was Kett executed?
26th November
