How Did Tudor Governments Deal With Rebellions: Strategy

Question 1

How did Tudor governments get advice when there was trouble?

Answer 1

They consult advisors

Question 2

How did the King first hear about Simnel’s plans to invade England in February 1487?

Answer 2

In a Great Council

Question 3

Who left combating rebellions down to his council and principal ministers?

Answer 3

King Henry VIII, with Wolsey in the 1520s and Cromwell in the 1530s

Question 4

What was a major criticism of the Duke of Somerset in 1549?

Answer 4

He did not regularly consult or geed the advice of the Privy Council on how to deal with rebellions

Question 5

Who did both Mary and Elizabeth rely on to determine the strategy and suppression of rebellions?

Answer 5

Their secretaries and councillors

Question 6

What did Mary receiving when trying to suppress the Wyatt rebellion in 1554?

Answer 6

Conflicting advise

Question 7

In 1536 who did Henry write to after hearing that Sawley Abbey had been reoccupied by monks ordering him to execute the about, monks and rebels, and what was the flaw in this order?

Answer 7

The Earl of Derby who was heavily outnumbered and some distance from the abbey putting hum in no position to carry out the order

Question 8

What was the communication problem the Duke of Somerset had when dealing with the Western rebellion in 1549?

Answer 8

He ahd to rely on out-of-date reports

Question 9

How did the lack of information that Somerset was given hinder his suppression of the Western rebellion?

Answer 9

He tried to make JPs to persuade ringleader to return home, yet when he wrote the in the 26th of June the JPs and tried and failed 3 times to reason with the rebels, most gentry had joined the rebellion or gone into hiding and the size of rebels exceeded 6000 and were already camped outside of Exeter, with Somerset completely unknowing or prepared

Question 10

How did most of the Tudors get insider information?

Answer 10

Using spies

Question 11

How did King Henry VII find rebels that escaped from the Battle of Bosworth like Lord Lovel and the Stafford Brothers?

Answer 11

Using agents who tracked the rebels

Question 12

Who did Elizabeth rely on to gather intelligence?

Answer 12

Sir Francis Walsingham

Question 13

How many agents did Sir Francis Walsingham employ at home and oversees to detect conspiracies, identify and arrest suspects and reduce the likelihood of rebellions occurring?

Answer 13

OVer 50 agents

Question 14

Who infiltrated Yorkist circles and supplied the King Henry VII about Warbeck?

Answer 14

Sir Edward Brampton in Flanders and Sir Robert Clifford

Question 15

Who was arrested because of treason in 1495?

Answer 15

Sir William Stanley

Question 16

What conditions were attached to many bonds of alliance that King Henry VII made many suspected rebels take?

Answer 16

They were obliged to inform the council if they heard any seditious information

Question 17

What was sent out to JPs and sheriffs once the Amicable Grant broke out?

Answer 17

Letters ordering them to deal with the problem of those JPs and sheriffs in the disturbed regions

Question 18

When were nobles and councillors in the disturbed regions called upon in the Amicable Grant rising?

Answer 18

If the JPs proved to be ineffectual

Question 19

Which dukes assumed command in the Amicable Grant rising?

Answer 19

Duke of Norfolk and Suffolk

Question 20

When did the Privy Council learn of 20,000 rebels preparing to converge Lincoln for the Lincolnshire Rising?

Answer 20

5th October 1536

Question 21

Which higher members of society was involved in the Lincolnshire rising?

Answer 21

The sheriff, Sir Edward Dymoke, the mayor, Robert Sutton and several leading gentry like William Willoughby and a MP, Vincent Grantham

Question 22

What was King Henry VIII’s first response to the news of the Lincolnshire rising?

Answer 22

To command Lord Hussey, the most senior peer in the country, to raise his tenants and deal with the rising, but Hussey had fled to Nottingham after try to mediate with the rebels and not raise enough loyal men

Question 23

Who had to suppress the Lincolnshire rising and who was requested to stand by due to the large amount of rebels?

Answer 23

Duke of Suffolk and Norfolk and they had the Earl of Huntington in Leicestershire and the Earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield to stand by

Question 24

Why was trouble intensified and the Western rebellion was not an isolated incident as Somerset initially thought?

Answer 24

Due to absence of a powerful privy councillor and a major landowner in the area

Question 25

Who was the high steward if the Duchy of Cornwall and Lord Privy Seal in 1549, but spent most of his time in London leading to the Western rebellion gaining strength?

Answer 25

Lord John Russell

Question 26

Who was a powerful Cornish landowner in 1549 but fell out of favour with the Protestant regime?

Answer 26

Sir John Arundell

Question 27

Why was it a disastrous decision to send Sir Peter Carew, the former sheriff of Deon, go persuade the rebels to disperse?

Answer 27

Because Carew was impetus, lacked diplomacy and a devout Protestant

Question 28

What happened when Carew tried to reason with the Catholic rebels at Crediton?

Answer 28

One of his men set fire to a barn and thereafter the rebels believed that the gentry intended to ‘spoil and destroy them’

Question 29

Who was order to deal with the Kett rebellion?

Answer 29

Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk and the Marquis of Northampton

Question 30

Why had Norfolk had a lack of control by the upper classes before the Kett rebellion?

Answer 30

There was no redisndent privy councillor in Norfolk and the prominent Howard family was in disgrace and none of the leading gentry was willing to take a stand against the rebels

Question 31

Who had to retreat to Norwich castle because they had no troops?

Answer 31

The sheriff, Sir Edmund Wyndham

Question 32

What did the Privy Council alert all sheriffs, lord lieutenants and JPs of in 1596?

Answer 32

Probable food rights and to be on the lookout for gangs seizing grain and food supplies

Question 33

What did the Privy Council think Essex was planning?

Answer 33

Either a coup that would entail seizing the green and capturing the Tower of London and its arsenal, or a demonstration of noble force in the city

Question 34

What was the appropriate defensive action by the sheriff and Lord Mayor of London taken after being informed of Essex’s possible action?

Answer 34

They ordered the closure of city gates, heavy artillery from the Tower and prepared the Earl of Nottingham deputed to draw up sufficient cannon to blast a hole in Essex’s house if he resisted arrest

Question 35

Who did King Henry VII appoint to leas the forces against Simnel, the Cornish rebels and Warbeck?

Answer 35

Sir Giles Daubeny

Question 36

How did King Henry VII deal with serious disturbances?

Answer 36

Himself and was occasionally present in the field or heading towards the rebels camp when they dispersed, often testing his closet advisors and allies

Question 37

In 1487 after Henry issued the commissions of array, who did he rely on to defend the troublesome areas?

Answer 37

Nobles who had fought with him at Bosworth and a handful of ex-Richardians whom he was prepared to trust: Earl of Northumberland secured the far north, Earl of Oxford over East Anglia, Earl of Derby reported on South Lancashire and Duke of Bedford over Welsh boarders

Question 38

Who did Henry initially expect to deal with the rebels marching towards London in the Cornish rebellion of 1497?

Answer 38

The leading families in the south-west and south of England

Question 39

Who was Henry’s attention focused on, and already sent a royal army up north on the threat of war?

Answer 39

King James IV of Scotland due to his support of the pretender Warbeck

Question 40

How did Henry act to defeat the Cornish rebels after they were able to pass through Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire without noble resistance?

Answer 40

Moved from London to Woodstock and then to Wallingford before gathering troops at Henley, recalling Daubeny from the royal army moving up to Scotland and wrote to Edmund de la Pole in Oxfordshire, Rhys ap Thomas in south wakens and the Earl of Oxford in Norfolk to raise men

Question 41

Until 1534 how many garrisons and how big were they in Ireland?

Answer 41

1 in the Pale near Dublin with around 700 troops

Question 42

Why did Elizabeth prefer diplomacy to military solutions in Ireland?

Answer 42

It was cheaper and might pave the way for long-term solutions

Question 43

When did Shane O’Neill murder his half-brother in 1558?

Answer 43

When Shane heard that Mary Tudor had conferred the earldom of Tyrone on him

Question 44

What did Shane O’Neill refuse to do until 1601?

Answer 44

Take Elizabeth’s invite to she her in London, when she accepted his confession to the murder and to causing rebellion in Ulster

Question 45

What did Elizabeth recognised Shane O’Neill upon his confession?

Answer 45

Made Shane O’Neill the Captain of Tyrone and Lord of Tyrconnel and went against he advise of Sussex, her Lord Deputy in Ireland, and acknowledge Shane O’Neill as the ‘O’Neill’

Question 46

What did Sussex, Elizabeth’s Lord Deputy in Ireland, warn about Shane O’Neill?

Answer 46

‘If Shane be overthrown, all is settled; id Shane settle, all is overthrown’

Question 47

Why did Elizabeth abandon her plans to reconcile Shane O’Neill and turned to military solution in 1566?

Answer 47

Because Shane continued to disregard the law, he raided the lands of rival clansmen, kidnapped hostage and dabbled in high treason