Pilgrimage of Grace 1536

Question 1

where

Answer 1

in the northern counties

Question 2

time

Answer 2

8 Oct - Feb 1537

Question 3

leader

Answer 3

Robert Aske, lawyer

commons

no noble leaders

Question 4

rebel army

Answer 4

far larger than the King’s so he had to play for time and send the Duke of Norfolk to negotiate

Question 5

Henry

Answer 5

offered general pardons to all involved

a parliament to discuss the issues

Question 6

causes

Answer 6

religion: fear of dissolution of the monasteries
taxes: Cromwell’s subsidy act of £80,000

Question 7

subsidiary causes

Answer 7

poor harvest the previous year

Question 8

degree of threat

Answer 8

high

50,000 rebels across northern England

but no intention to overthrow the king, loyal

Question 9

outcomes

Answer 9

general pardons promised

subsidy dropped

pro catholic outcome

second wave of rebels treated more harshly

Question 10

24 articles

Answer 10

3 economic- end enclosure

6 legal- parliament in the north

6 political- remove Cromwell and Cranmer and restore Mary to the succession

9 religious- restoration of papal authority

Question 11

success

Answer 11

Henry had to start paying attention to the north

Question 12

failure

Answer 12

the rebels failed to take advantage of the numbers of general sympathy to the cause

Question 13

G. Elton

Answer 13

(factional)

argues that the Lincolnshire rebels had links to landowners who were part of the Aragonese faction

Question 14

J. J Scarisbrick

Answer 14

(religious)

demands mostly religious

Question 15

why was it a threat

Answer 15

had offer of foreign help for the Pilgrims

took the regional capital of York

Question 16

the north felt

Answer 16

excluded from the growing centralization and therefore in the Pilgrimage demanded a parliament up north