Organisation Flashcards

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What did a rebellion’s effectiveness depend on?

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How well the leader held together its social groups, disciplined its members, and organised its infrastructure

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What was the problem with the organisation of the northern earls?

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Northumberland didn’t leave enough time to call on his tenants to rise

Underestimated how long it would take to march from Durham to Tutbury

Didn’t realise that Mary had been moved to Coventry

600 troops deserted after Northumberland and Westmorland had £20 to pay 1000 footmen

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What was the problem with the organisation of the Simnel rebellion?

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2000 German mercenaries and 40 Irish nobles with ‘wild’ tenants deterred many English from joining the army

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What was the problem with the organisation of the Western rebellion?

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Animosity between the Cornishmen and Devonians

Tension between social groups, with some of those in the Clyst camp wanting to ‘kill all the gentleman’

Petition contained no reference to economic grievances

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What was the problem with the organisation of the Oxfordshire rising?

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It wasn’t secret and a colleague alerted his lord of the intended rising

The choice of Enslow Hill made their arrest predictable

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What was the problem with the organisation of Essex’s rebellion?

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Failed to enlist the support of the mayor and sheriff of London, whom he thought would back him

No exit strategy and forced to withdraw

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What were the good things about the organisation of the Pilgrimage of Grace?

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Recruits were mustered into companies according to location, which meant that most men were able to elect a captain to represent them

Captain regularly attended council meetings

Recruits were given a badge and a supply of food and wages and took the oath of good behaviour

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What happened when (blank) rebels approached York?

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Aske arranged that half would camp outside the city while the rest would accompany him

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What were the problems with the organisation of the Pilgrimage of Grace?

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Those who came from regions to the west of the Pennines proved difficult to manage

Tension between gentry leaders and the commoners

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What happened in November 1536?

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300 representatives assembled near Doncaster, while the rest waited at Pontefract

Forty pilgrims were selected to parley with the Duke of Norfolk

Most of the commons feared that the gentry were going to betray them

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What were the good things about the organisation of Kett’s rebellion?

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Marshalled a peaceful protest of 16,000 rebels for seven weeks

The camp was run like a model government

Each of the 24 hundreds in Norfolk that contributed rebels elected two governors to sit on an advisory council

Courts of justice imposed disciplinary fines and punishments

Proclamations and warrants were issued

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What did a warrant undertake when seeking supplies?

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That ‘no violence or injury be done to any honest or poor man’

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What did Kett do?

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Sent out search parties to keep the camp supplied with food and beer

Negotiated with the Mayor of Norwich to purchase provisions and gun power

Arranged for artillery to be brought from the coast

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What was taken?

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Prayers, twice-a-day, by Thomas Conyers, under the Oak of Reformation

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What was maintained?

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Discipline when the rebels attacked the city and held it for a week before retiring

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What was established?

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A garrison in the cathedral grounds

Aldermen and constables were appointed, citizens conscripted as watchmen, and the city gates, castle, and guildhall guarded

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When was someone killed?

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After royal troops and mercenaries arrived to recover control of the city