Rebellion and unrest 1547-58

Question 1

What eight Economic and Social problems were there that affected England?

Answer 1

• Population Rise
• Inflation and rising prices
• Enclosure
• Decline in living standards
• Poverty and vagrancy
• Rising rent
• Poor harvests
• Influenza and epidemics

Question 2

What was the most important Socio-Economic occurrence that affected England?

Answer 2

Population rise, .7million in 26 years

Question 3

What began to replace crop growing in line with the cloth trade?

Answer 3

Sheep farming

Question 4

When and what was the Vagrancy act?

Answer 4

1547, condemned vagrants to slavery for two years for a first offence, life for a second

Question 5

What was the main motivation for the Prayer book rebellion?

Answer 5

They stood opposed to the first Act of Uniformity which made the use of the new prayer book mandatory

Question 6

Which two areas of England were particularly angered by the first Act of Uniformity?

Answer 6

Devon & Cornwall

Question 7

When was William Body murdered? What did this snowball into?

Answer 7

1549, the Prayer Book Rebellion

Question 8

What dominated the demands of the Prayer Book Rebellions rebels?

Answer 8

Religious desires, they wanted the restoration of traditional Catholic practices

Question 9

What else were the Prayer Book rebels opposed to?

Answer 9

The Gentry

Question 10

What city did the rebels manage to hold during the Prayer Book Rebellion?

Answer 10

Exeter

Question 11

Who led the East Anglian rebellion?

Answer 11

Robert Kett

Question 12

What was the Kett’s rebellion main grievance?

Answer 12

Enclosures

Question 13

Who was the main point of grievance in the Kett’s rebellion?

Answer 13

Local lawyer, John Flowerdew

Question 14

Why was John Flowerdew the problem in the eyes of the Kett rebels?

Answer 14

He bought the local abbey, began to demolish it and enclose the surrounding land

Question 15

What city did the Kett rebels take?

Answer 15

Norwich

Question 16

How many rebels were raised during the Kett’s rebellion?

Answer 16

16,000

Question 17

What were the four agricultural grievances of the Kett’s rebellion?

Answer 17

1- The enclosure of Saffron
2- Gentry manipulation of the foldcourse system
3- Amount of sheep on common land
4- Public fishing rights

Question 18

What was the main economic grievance of the Kett’s rebellion?

Answer 18

Stop rising rents

Question 19

What was the main religious grievance of the Kett’s rebellion?

Answer 19

They wanted more protestant reforms, brining in minsters who would preach using the new prayerbook

Question 20

What were the main social grievances of the Kett’s rebelion?

Answer 20

1- Concern over the breakdown of local government
2- Annoyance over the local officials who used their positions to make moves on the land market
3- They accepted the rights of the gentry but called for the ending of those who didn’t fit the gentry owning rabbits and doves

Question 21

How did the Kett rebel’s grievances reflect in their demands?

Answer 21

They constructed their own sort of class system through camps, where the ‘gentlemen’ acted accordingly and accommodated for aspects of the poor

Question 22

How serious were Kett and Prayer Book rebellions?

Answer 22

They weren’t too serious, while both captured a major city, (Kett, Norwich - PB, Exeter) neither seemed to have plans to march on London and seemed content with putting forth their demands and waiting for a response.

Both were put down with relative ease too

Question 23

Why did Northumberland launch the LJG affair?

Answer 23

He realised that with Edward’s declining health would come Mary, with Mary would come Northumberland’s demise from power due to the Catholic reformation she would introduce

Question 24

What caused the Wyatt’s rebellion?

Answer 24

Mary’s potential marriage to Philip of Burgundy

Question 25

Why were people opposed to Mary’s marriage to Philip of Burgundy?

Answer 25

They didn’t want to see England dragged into the Habsburg wars that would offer no advantage to England

Question 26

Who did the court extract information from about the Lady Jane Grey affair?

Answer 26

Edward Courtenay

Question 27

What happened during the Lady Jane Grey affair that meant Mary found it easy to put down?

Answer 27

The rebels were forced to move early, with only one town rising against Mary, the numbers dwindled at 3,000 so Mary had ample time to raise a force against them