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when were there bad harvests in lincolnshire?

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1535 and 1536

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how many rebels took the city of york in the pog?

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10,000

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how did henry deal poorly with the pog?

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ignored warnings about increase in resentment

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how did the duke of norfolk respond to the renewal of the rebellion?

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  • declared martial law
  • hanged 74 rebels
  • then acted mercifully with proper legal processes
  • rebel leaders such as darcy and hussey were bought back to london, tried and executed
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were the promises made by norfolk honoured? why was this no big deal in the end?

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no, but most of the rebel forces dispersed;
the rebellion was renewed in cumberland in 1537, so henry had an excuse to go back on his promise

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what happened to the duke of norfolk’s army (sent by king) when he arrived in doncaster? how did norfolk try to resolve the pog?

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he was outnumbered, so he defused the rebellion by issuing a pardon, promising dissolved monastries would be restored and a free parliament established

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what banner was used in the pog?

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five wounds of christ

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what were the pontefract articles?

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rebel demands - anger directed against cromwell and king’s advisers;
included desire for parliament to meet at york

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what were the secular motives for the pog?

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  • taxation
  • crown’s attempts to impose duke of suffolk upon licolnshire as magnate
  • restoration of princess mary as heir following succession act (1536)
  • tenants’ grievances in cumberland and westmorland
  • statute of uses 1536 (change the way property was left in wills)
  • lack of say in the running of the north (growing issue of enclosure)
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why were the royal injunctions a cause of the pog? when were they?

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1536
- celebration of locally important saint such as st wilfrid in yorkshire was discouraged
- discouragement of pilgrimage
- rumours church plates and jewels would be confiscated

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what were the 3 religious motives for the pog?

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  • fear for parish churches
  • dissolution of monastries
  • royal injunctions 1536
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why were the rebels in the pog angry about the dissolution of the mons?

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  • loss of charity and educational functions
  • possible loss of parish churches (durham cathedral)
  • fear the north would be impoverished as land would be given to southerners
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13
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provide evidence for why the uprising from the dales in the pog was militant

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letters were sent out in the name of captain poverty

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where did the more militant rising of the pilgrimage of grace arise? why were they more militant?

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in the dales (ripon), west into cumberland, north to durham and south;
they were more radicalised and hostile towards gentry because of their grievances against landlords

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where did the pog begin?

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lincolnshire, into wakefield and pontefract

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what did henry learn from resistance of the amicable grant?

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next time he supplemented extraordinary revenue with cash from the sale of monastic lands

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17
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those who refused to pay the amicable grant in suffolk were treated leniently. why?

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wolsey publicly begged the king to offer pardon to those he saw as his suffolk countrymen (ipswich <3)

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where was there resistance in the north to the amicable grant? how many? who?

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  • norfolk and suffolk
  • 4000 resisters
  • mainly cloth workers
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where was there resistance in the east against the amicable grant? how many?

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  • essex and suffolk
  • 1000 resisters gathered at border
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where was there backlash against taxation in 1513? consequence?

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yorkshire, taxation demands were eventually written off

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what resistance was there to the dissolution of monastries?

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  • pog and licolnshire uprising 1536
  • northumberland, royal commissioners were prevented from beginning dissolution by a gathering of armed men
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22
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what other roles did monastries play in their communities?

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  • employment and business opportunities
  • major monastic churches (durham) were cathedrals of their dioceses
  • some monastries were also parish churches
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23
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why did the land taken from church and given to crown not make the king powerful in the long-term? give an example (quant)

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expense of foreign policy led to sale of monastic property, increasing size and wealth of landholding gentry; by 1547, 2/3 of monastic land acquired by the crown had been sold

24
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what were the long-lasting social consequences of religious upheaval?

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  • land removed from church, given to crown and subsequently sold to gentry
  • monastic schools lost
  • monks and nuns unemployed
  • monasteries’ roles in communities
25
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what improvements to the church were made in the early 16th century?

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wolsey dissolved some redundant monasteries, using the funds for education

26
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how many annual sessions did the council in the north hold?

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4

27
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how did the council in the north prove its worth?

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kept the north quiet in the summer rebellions in 1549

28
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what were the benefits of the council of wales managing the anglo-welsh border?

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cheap, local access to the law

29
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who was the anglo-welsh border governed by?

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principality of wales, under jurisdiction of the council of wales and the marches

30
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what did the act resuming liberties to the crown do? when? what was its weakness?

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1536, reduced independence of bishop in durham;
power not fully removed as palatinate court of chancery still operated

31
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who exercised palatinate jurisdiction in durham?

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bishop

32
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what counties were palatinates? in which two did it matter little?

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lancashire, cheshire and durham;
didn’t matter in lanc and chesh because jurisidiction in royal control

33
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what were palatinates?

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counties under separate jurisdiction from rest of kingdom

34
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who became increasingly responsible for exercising control on behalf of crown in wales? give examples?

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aristocracy, e.g earls of pembroke and members of anglicised welsh gentry

35
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what did the laws in wales act do? when?

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1536
- divided wales into shire counties (operated same as in england)
- welsh shires have direct representation in hofc
- wales in same legal framework as england

36
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which two groups did henry choose to appoint as wardens over the 3 marches? give example

A

gentry or complete outsiders who held loyalty to the king but had little influence over locals; lord wharton appointed in 1542 to an anglo-scottish march

37
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what was the risk of appointing a local noble over an area?

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noble could exploit office to enhance their own power

38
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what was the anglo-scottish border split into? how many?

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3 marches

39
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what were the issues with the anglo-scottish border?

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  • difficult to police
  • remote
  • inhospitable in winter
  • reputation for lawlessness
  • violent
  • cattle and sheep rustling
40
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what did henry do with the bonds left by his father?

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reversed 175 of them

41
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why did commoners feel ill towards the amicable grant?

A

rise of inflation led to a drop in real incomes

42
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what did an increased number of JPs mean?

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more gentry educated their sons in law to be able to get these roles

43
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why did the crown’s ministers change to laymen? what were they before?

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members of gentry increasingly keen on their sons acquiring legal training for local advancement;
ministers used to be clergymen

44
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how did royal heralds have control of a portion of the gentry? give example (quant)

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they confirmed the status of an esquire;
by 1530, heralds were unwilling to grant or confirm the title to anyone worth less than £10 per annum or goods under £300

45
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how many knightly families in 1524?

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200

46
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how many gentry families in england in 1540?

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5000

47
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what nobles were executed for crimes under henry? when?

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  • duke of buckingham for treason, 1521
  • marquess of exeter for treason, 1538
  • countess of salisbury held in tower for 2 years for treason then executed;
  • lords darcy and hussey executed for pog, 1536
    -sir thomas more executed under treason act, 1535
48
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what was the fate of baron dacre of the south? when? why significant?

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1541, tried for murder of a neighbour’s servant, convicted and hanged like a common criminal;
nobility being brought under monarch’s power

49
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how were nobles important in their regions? give example (quant)

A

recruitment of royal armies;
earl of shrewsbury raised 4000 men for invasion of france in 1513

50
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give example of henry taking land from nobles

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lord scrope’s manor in hertfordshire taken

51
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give example of henry bestowing property on a noble and why

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duke of suffolk given land in lincolnshire after pog;
king ordered him there to exert authority in person

52
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who criticised henry’s promotion of the duke of suffolk? why?

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erasmus, as he was promoted based on personal relationship

53
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did peerages increase? who to?

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yes, more rewarded for royal service
- courtiers
-soldiers
- close family

54
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did nobility peerages increase/decrease? by how many?

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increase by 9

55
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why were the roles of duke of suffolk and duke of norfolk significant?

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suffolk - title created by henry
norfolk- elevated due to connection (uncle to anne and kath h)

56
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give examples of nobility

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duke of norfolk, duke of buckingham, duke of suffolk

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