How Did Tudor Governments Deal With Rebellions: Strategy Flashcards
How did Tudor governments get advice when there was trouble?
They consult advisors
How did the King first hear about Simnel’s plans to invade England in February 1487?
In a Great Council
Who left combating rebellions down to his council and principal ministers?
King Henry VIII, with Wolsey in the 1520s and Cromwell in the 1530s
What was a major criticism of the Duke of Somerset in 1549?
He did not regularly consult or geed the advice of the Privy Council on how to deal with rebellions
Who did both Mary and Elizabeth rely on to determine the strategy and suppression of rebellions?
Their secretaries and councillors
What did Mary receiving when trying to suppress the Wyatt rebellion in 1554?
Conflicting advise
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?
The Earl of Derby who was heavily outnumbered and some distance from the abbey putting hum in no position to carry out the order
What was the communication problem the Duke of Somerset had when dealing with the Western rebellion in 1549?
He ahd to rely on out-of-date reports
How did the lack of information that Somerset was given hinder his suppression of the Western rebellion?
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
How did most of the Tudors get insider information?
Using spies
How did King Henry VII find rebels that escaped from the Battle of Bosworth like Lord Lovel and the Stafford Brothers?
Using agents who tracked the rebels
Who did Elizabeth rely on to gather intelligence?
Sir Francis Walsingham
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?
OVer 50 agents
Who infiltrated Yorkist circles and supplied the King Henry VII about Warbeck?
Sir Edward Brampton in Flanders and Sir Robert Clifford
Who was arrested because of treason in 1495?
Sir William Stanley
What conditions were attached to many bonds of alliance that King Henry VII made many suspected rebels take?
They were obliged to inform the council if they heard any seditious information
What was sent out to JPs and sheriffs once the Amicable Grant broke out?
Letters ordering them to deal with the problem of those JPs and sheriffs in the disturbed regions
When were nobles and councillors in the disturbed regions called upon in the Amicable Grant rising?
If the JPs proved to be ineffectual
Which dukes assumed command in the Amicable Grant rising?
Duke of Norfolk and Suffolk
When did the Privy Council learn of 20,000 rebels preparing to converge Lincoln for the Lincolnshire Rising?
5th October 1536
Which higher members of society was involved in the Lincolnshire rising?
The sheriff, Sir Edward Dymoke, the mayor, Robert Sutton and several leading gentry like William Willoughby and a MP, Vincent Grantham
What was King Henry VIII’s first response to the news of the Lincolnshire rising?
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
Who had to suppress the Lincolnshire rising and who was requested to stand by due to the large amount of rebels?
Duke of Suffolk and Norfolk and they had the Earl of Huntington in Leicestershire and the Earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield to stand by
Why was trouble intensified and the Western rebellion was not an isolated incident as Somerset initially thought?
Due to absence of a powerful privy councillor and a major landowner in the area
