Pilgrimage of Grace

Question 1

Where?

Answer 1

West Riding of Yorkshire

Question 2

Political?

Answer 2

1) Shifts in power balances at court – old supporters of Catherine of Aragon losing out
2) Concern over the statue of uses

Question 3

Economic?

Answer 3

1) Fear of new taxes in a time of peace not war, prompted by passage of Cromwell’s Subsidy Act authorising the collection of £80,000
2) Poor harvest the previous year

Question 4

Religious?

Answer 4

1) Fear of dissolution of monasteries, which provided needed charitable social safety net – rebellion coincided with visits by King’s Commissioners; settling of local grievances

Question 5

Duration?

Answer 5

Oct 1536-Feb 1537

Question 6

Extent of Support?

Answer 6

Strong - Gentry and Commons (Lord Darcy , Lord Hussey, Robert Aske)
40,000 participants

Question 7

Leadership?

Answer 7

Shoemaker Nicholas Melton in Lincs.
Landowners such as Sir Robert Aske and Francis Bigod in Yorkshire.
Bush calls the rebellion ‘a rising of the commons’, stressing its manifestoes were issued “with consent of the commons” and that rebels swore to be true to “God, king and commons”

Question 8

Regions affected?

Answer 8

Yorkshire

Question 9

Military Response?

Answer 9

No military response just Duke of Norfolk sent up to negotiate.

Question 10

Level of threat?

Answer 10

High - 30,000 rebel fighters, nobility and gentry joined. Well co-ordinated due to having Aske as their leader. Looked towards negotiations. Subsidy dropped.

Question 11

Level of threat?

Answer 11

High - 30,000 rebel fighters, nobility and gentry joined. Well co-ordinated due to having Aske as their leader. Looked towards negotiations. Subsidy dropped.

Low - Eventually brought under control. Aske was naive to accept proposals that Norfolk brought up