Political Causes Of Rebellion - Government Intervention Flashcards
What did the Crown become as centralisation took hold?
More omniscient, political and legal privileges were swept away and traditional practices eroded
What did Tudor centralisation make people want to revolt against?
Tudor ‘despotism’
In the 1530s which clergymen in the north of liberty surrendered their ecclesiastical liberties to the Crown?
Ripon, Beverley and the Palatinate of Durham
Which rebellions petitioned for parliament to meet in the North?
Pilgrimage of Grace and Northern Earls
What did the earls in the Northern Earls proclaim the aim of the rebellion was?
‘The restoring of all ancient customs and liberties to God and this noble realm’
Why did government intervention lead to the Silken Thomas’s rebellion?
The Cromwell started to favour the Kildare’s rivals for government offices and the current earl began to resent his declining influence
Why did King Henry VIII order the Earl Of Kildare to visit him in September 1933?
Because the king doubted weather the earl would enforce the break with Rome and Act in Restraint of Appeals
What country had all their rebellions under the Tudor linked to government intervention as a cause?
Ireland
What did James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald resent about Elizabethan government in Ireland?
Their attempts to colonise Ireland and the imposition of martial law in he wake of O’Neill’s uprising and all the English plantations allowed
What was the religious pretext Fitzgerald claimed Elizabeth wanted to introduce?
‘another newly invented kind of religion’
What did the new English plantation owners do?
Raised rent, claimed land to which they were not entitled and bribed juries to obtain favourable verdicts and establish Protestant churches
What was the political aim of the Tyrone rebellion?
To expel the new English settlers and Anglo-Irish administrations and to achieve independence
