Rebellions

Question 1

What rebellions happened under HVII?

Answer 1

1486- Lovell’s rebellion
1486-87- Lambert Simnel
1489- Yorkshire rebellion
1491-99- Perkin Warbeck
1497- Cornish rebellion

Question 2

What was the cause of the Yorkshire rebellion?

Answer 2

Henry’s attempts to raise money for Breton crisis

Question 3

Who did Simnel pass himself off as?

Answer 3

Originally Richard Duke of York, but then Earl of Warwick who was in the tower and could be produced to prove him wrong

Question 4

How did foreign powers support simnel?

Answer 4

He was initially helped by the Earl of Kildare
MofB offered 2,000 soldiers to support him
John de la Pole (Earl of Lincoln) fled to support him

Question 5

When did Simnel try to invade and did he gather much support?

Answer 5

May 1867
No, because there was little enthusiasm for more fighting after the war of the roses

Question 6

How did HVII punish the people involved in the Simnel rebellion?

Answer 6

Simnel he deemed not a threat, so gave him a job in the royal kitchens
John DLP (Lincoln) and other implicated yorkist leaders were killed

Question 7

Who did Warbeck claim to be?

Answer 7

Richard of York

Question 8

Which foreign powers supported Warbeck?

Answer 8

Posssibly planted by Burgundy and Kildare (Educated in Antwerp and popped up in ireland)
Recognised by Charles VIII, France, but forced to burgundy in 1492 after Etaples
In 1495 was supported by James IV (Scotland)

Question 9

What happened to Warbeck after he confessed to lying about his claim?

Answer 9

He was allowed to remain at court but put in the tower when he ran away in 1489
He attempted escape with the Earl of Warwick, and were then both executed

Question 10

What was the cause of the Cornish rebellion?

Answer 10

HVII’s taxes to raise money to defend against the scottish raids for Perkin Warbeck in 1497

Question 11

What was the only significant rebellion in the first half of HVIII’s reign?

Answer 11

The Amicable Grant

Question 12

What was the Amicable Grant?

Answer 12

A tax on the value of people’s properties, to raise money for his war against france

Question 13

What aspect of the amicable grant particularly angered people?

Answer 13

That Wolsey was allowing exceptions

Question 14

How was the Amicable grant solved?

Answer 14

Henry suspended it, losing his income to fight France, and embarrassing himself and Wolsey

Question 16

Who joined the pilgrimage of grace and why?

Answer 16

18 local gentry joined to lead it, calling for Cromwell’s dismissal and repeal of a tax that gentry had to pay on inherited land.
The local monks (cuz monasteries)
Robert Aske, who gathered forces after visiting and on his way back to York

Question 17

How many ‘pilgrims’ in arms were there at the height?

Answer 17

40,000 men

Question 18

How did the ‘pilgrimage’ end?

Answer 18

They gave the Pontefract articles to the Duke of Norfolk (a petition of their demands).
Henry decided to grant a general pardon and said that Parl. would consider their demands, so they dispersed.
Other rebellions in 1537 allowed Henry to arrest and execute figures including Robert Aske, who had led the ‘pilgrimage’

Question 19

When was and what were the causes of the Western (Prayer Book) Rebellion?

Answer 19

summer 1549
Discontent around the new english prayer book (ummmm, they spoke cornish)
Economic and social discontent:
Over-inflation
Over-population
Sheep farming land changes (enclosure)

Question 20

Why did Somerset take so long to respond to the Western and Ketts rebellion?

Answer 20

Because there were troop in both Scotland and France

Question 21

What were the causes of the Kett’s rebellion?

Answer 21

Widespread economic and social unrest:
bad harvests, and rapid price rises
belief that govt ministeers were profiteering from the lack of control of the young king
anger at enclosures

Question 22

Why did the Western Rebellion not proceed to London?

Answer 22

Because they wanted the govt to come to them

Question 23

How were the western and ketts rebellion ended?

Answer 23

The royal army beat the western rebellion in August.
The Earl of Warwick (John Dudley), beat the Ketts rebellion in August with a total of 4,000 deaths (bad)

Question 24

Who planned the Wyatt rebellion?

Answer 24

Sir Thomas Wyatt a member of the gentry in Kent

Question 25

What was the plan for the Wyatt rebellion?

Answer 25

For four rebellions in march 1554, in:
-Kent (led by Wyatt)
-Devon
-Leicestershire (led by Lady JG’s father)
-on the welsh border
to march their forces to london, and replace mary with Edward Courtenay, who would marry elizabeth

Question 26

What could be the causes for discontent that helped the Wyatt rebellion?

Answer 26

Fear of the spanish or spanish interests taking control
The decline of the cloth industry in Kent
Religious discontent (though this may have just been royal propoganda)

Question 27

What actually happened in the Wyatt rebellion?

Answer 27

Only rebellions in Kent materialised led by Wyatt with 3,000 men
They marched into london, but were stopped by the closed london bridge, and lack of support in london

Question 28

Who was executed as a result of the Wyatt rebellion?

Answer 28

Lady Jane Grey
Thomas Wyatt
about a hundred other co-conspirators

Question 29

What caused the rebellion of the northern earls?

Answer 29

The spanish duke of alba in the netherlands refused to help put mary on the throne until the english had carried out a revolt.
The Duke of Norfolk hated Cecil

Question 30

What happened to the troops gathered by the northern earls?

Answer 30

They took durham, but when they tried to go south, their troops melted away

Question 31

How many people were hanged after the rebellion of the northern earls?

Answer 31

800 (mostly commoners)

Question 32

Why did Essex start the Essex rebellion?

Answer 32

Because he had lost almost all influence and money
He detested the power of the cecils

Question 33

How did Elizabeth deal with the essex rebellion?

Answer 33

She had essex executed, but did associate any of his associates for fear of provoking further rebellion.