Organisation Flashcards
What did a rebellion’s effectiveness depend on?
How well the leader held together its social groups, disciplined its members, and organised its infrastructure
What was the problem with the organisation of the northern earls?
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
What was the problem with the organisation of the Simnel rebellion?
2000 German mercenaries and 40 Irish nobles with ‘wild’ tenants deterred many English from joining the army
What was the problem with the organisation of the Western rebellion?
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
What was the problem with the organisation of the Oxfordshire rising?
It wasn’t secret and a colleague alerted his lord of the intended rising
The choice of Enslow Hill made their arrest predictable
What was the problem with the organisation of Essex’s rebellion?
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
What were the good things about the organisation of the Pilgrimage of Grace?
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
What happened when (blank) rebels approached York?
8000
Aske arranged that half would camp outside the city while the rest would accompany him
What were the problems with the organisation of the Pilgrimage of Grace?
Those who came from regions to the west of the Pennines proved difficult to manage
Tension between gentry leaders and the commoners
What happened in November 1536?
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
What were the good things about the organisation of Kett’s rebellion?
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
What did a warrant undertake when seeking supplies?
That ‘no violence or injury be done to any honest or poor man’
What did Kett do?
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
What was taken?
Prayers, twice-a-day, by Thomas Conyers, under the Oak of Reformation
What was maintained?
Discipline when the rebels attacked the city and held it for a week before retiring
