Pilgrimage Of Grace 1536

Question 1

How many risings did it include?

Answer 1

3

Question 2

What were the 3 uprisings?

Answer 2

Lincolnshire rising
Yorkshire
North-west

Question 3

Lincolnshire rising key facts

Answer 3

October 1536
10k men (gentry, no nobles) led by commoner
3 Cromwell commissioners to arrive in Lincolnshire to collect tax.
Henry refused to negotiate rebels demands and was quickly suppressed

Question 4

Lincolnshire uprising causes

Answer 4

Religious : dissolution of monasteries, trigger was sermon made by church priest, numerous church silver taken
Political : blame put on cromwell
Economic : dislike of high taxation, hostility to statute of uses

Question 5

The Yorkshire rising key facts

Answer 5

1536
Led by robert aske
30k men in comparison to Henry’s 8k
Wanted it be peaceful, one person died and negotiate
Robert Asked executed among other rising supporters 1537

Question 6

Yorkshire uprising causes

Answer 6

Religious motives : henry religious reform too far, dissolutions, Cromwell injunctions meant fear for traditional religious practice
Secular motives : POLITICAL - factor division among nobility. ECONOMIC - high tax, Cromwell
Social reasons - Cromwell influences and his bureaucracy in local affairs

Question 7

The north-west rising key facts

Answer 7

Irrelevance
Broke out early 1537
Easily suppressed and used as an excuse to arrest Aske + other leaders of the Yorkshire rising
Greater royal control of the north was ensured through the re-organisation of the council of the north

Question 8

Pilgrimage of grace short term consequences

Answer 8

• most substantial uprising that ever confronted the tudor throne
• support of tens of thousands of the common people
• both rebellions ended easily
• unrest in england
• parliament was never called so rebels grievances remained unaddressed which led to third rising in 1537
• dissolution process was hated
• resulted in short term acceleration of english reformation

Question 9

Pilgrimage of grace long-term consequences

Answer 9

• whole rebellion failed HVIII arrested all big rebels
• future rebellions ?
• tudor dynasty seen as unstable so easy target?
• rebels weren’t successful in stopping the process of the dissolution of the monasteries
• act of supremacy unchanged

Question 10

5 reasons why the Pilgrimage of Grace was significant

Answer 10

• was the largest popular rebellion faced during the tudor period - considerable threat
• size and scale of rebellion (40k people altogether) frightened henry
• threatened to halt english reformation - so significant political event at the time
• Yorkshire rebels occupied York and hull and captured Pontefract castle
• reformation was opposed by many different people in different ways and for different reasons. These differences potentially reduced chance of major crisis happening as they didn’t gather for common cause.