Rebellion (14)

Question 1

Why was 1549 perhaps the worst year of the whole Tudor period?

Answer 1

There were major rebellion in East Anglia and the south-west, as well as considerable levels of disorder throughout much of the rest of the country.

Question 2

What did Somerset’s government find it difficult to cope with?

Answer 2

The rebellions

Question 3

Give three reasons for the rebellions.

Answer 3

1) In some parts of the country religious reasons predominated.
2) In the Midlands and East Anglia agrarian and social grievances were most important, with the Council receiving numerous reports of riots and of uprooting of enclosures.
3) Resentment of taxation appears to have been a consistent factor.

Question 4

When was the Western Rebellion?

Answer 4

1549

Question 5

What was the Western Rebellion promoted by?

Answer 5

Religious grievances in Devon and Cornwall.

Question 6

What is the Western Rebellion described as?

Answer 6

“The prayer book rebellion”

Question 7

What did the rebels part of the Western Rebellion want to do with the religious reforms

Answer 7

Reverse the religious reforms which were destroying the way in which people had experienced religion.

Question 8

What was the Western Rebellion also provoked by?

Answer 8

The distrust between the rural labourers, on the other hand, and the landowners on the other, and grievances over taxation.

Question 9

What did the peasant labourers resent?

Answer 9

The sheep tax, which they regarded as an imposition by an uncaring and ignorant government in London. Their resentment had been made worse by its implementation by insensitive local officials.

Question 10

What happened on the 6th June in the Western Rebellion?

Answer 10

Formation of Cornish rebel camp near Bodmin

Question 11

What happened on the 20th June in the Western Rebellion?

Answer 11

The two rebellious groups converged on Crediton.

Question 12

What happened on the 11 June in the Western Rebellion?

Answer 12

Start of Devon rebellion at Sampford Courtenay.

Question 13

What happened on the 28th July in the Western Rebellion?

Answer 13

Lord Russell began his advance on the rebels.

Question 14

What happened on the 4th August in the Western Rebellion?

Answer 14

Rebels defeated at Clyst Heath.

Question 15

What happened on the 17th August in the Western Rebellion?

Answer 15

Find defeat of rebels at Sampford Coutenay.

Question 16

Where did the Kett’s rebellion take place?

Answer 16

Took place in East Anglia.

Question 17

What was there little evidence of in East Anglia?

Answer 17

Conservative religious tendencies in East Anglia among the leadership, and the rebels at Norwich had services conducted according to the Book of Common Prayer.

Question 18

What grievances did Diarmaid MacCulloch emphasis in the Kett’s rebellion?

Answer 18

1) Hatred of local government officials
2) Resentment of the abuse by landowners of the Norfolk foldcourse system.
3) The release of pent-up frustrations about the maladministration locally of the Howards.

Question 19

What happened on the 8th July during the Kett’s Rebellion?

Answer 19

Tearing down of hedges near Wymondham.

Question 20

What happened on the 9th July during the Kett’s Rebellion?

Answer 20

Protestors begin heading towards Norwich.

Question 21

What happened on the 12th July during the Kett’s Rebellion?

Answer 21

Rebels begin camping on Mousehold Heath, overlooking Norwich; other camps are set up elsewhere in East Anglia.

Question 22

What happened on the 21st July during the Kett’s Rebellion?

Answer 22

Rebels began firing on the city.

Question 23

What happened on the 22nd July during the Kett’s Rebellion?

Answer 23

Norwich was in the hand now of the rebels.

Question 24

What happened on the 27t August during the Kett’s Rebellion?

Answer 24

Rebels finally defeated by forces led by the Earl of Northumberland.

Question 25

Who and why did Somerset appoint?

Answer 25

Lord Russell, a rising nobelemen with estates in the West Country, to deal with the Western Rebellion.

Question 26

How did Russell defeat the rebels at Clyst Heath?

Answer 26

He had enough force, including foreign mercenaries, to be able to defeat rebels at Clyst Heath near Exeter on the 4th August.

Question 27

What had ended the humiliating failure?

Answer 27

The government’s original attempt to crush the East Anglian rebellion by the Earl of Northampton.

Question 28

What was Somerset forced to do?

Answer 28

Send an army including foreign mercenaries under the command of the Earl of of Warwick to deal with the rebels.