Religious

Question 1

What did the Western rebels reject?

Answer 1

The English prayer book - ‘Christian game’

The bible

The revised non-Latin liturgy of 1547

Question 1

What suggests that the main cause of the Western rebellion was religious?

Answer 1

13/14 articles involved religion and restoration

Rebels marched under the banner of the Five Wounds of Christ

Question 2

What did the Western rebels want?

Answer 2

The restoration of papal relics and images

The restoration of the chantries

Two monasteries in every county

Latin mass

Return to the Act of Six Articles of 1539

Question 3

What did the Western rebels not request but what did they do?

Answer 3

The restoration of the papacy

Challenged the legality of secular authorities implementing religious reforms

Question 4

What did Phillip Nichols call local priests during the Western rebellion?

Answer 4

‘whelps of the Romish litter’

Question 5

What did the Kett’s rebels resent?

Answer 5

Priests who indulged in the property market and those who prosecuted parishioners for unpaid and unfair tithes

Question 6

What did the Kett’s rebels want?

Answer 6

Educated clergy

Competent teaching of the catechism

Prymer for children

Quality sermons

Question 7

Who was the Bishop of Norfolk in 1549 and what was he?

Answer 7

William Rugge

Unsympathetic to radical reforms

Question 8

What was a strong feeling among the Kett’s rebels?

Answer 8

That the quality of ministers wasn’t good enough to enhance the reformation

Question 9

What shows that the Kett’s rebels were religious?

Answer 9

A daily service, using the new prayer book, was conducted under the Tree of Reformation at Mousehold Heath

Question 10

What did Norfolk have in 1549?

Answer 10

An anticlerical tradition

Question 11

What was Kett’s rebellion?

Answer 11

A protest against the slow rate of progress Protestantism was making

Question 12

What was Wyatt?

Answer 12

Not a reformer and his agenda was political, not religious

Question 13

What did Wyatt say?

Answer 13

‘you may not so much as name religion for that will withdraw from us the hearts of many’

Question 14

What did Wyatt believe?

Answer 14

That xenophobia would generate more support

Question 15

What had Mary I already done by Wyatt’s rebellion?

Answer 15

Reversed many of the Edwardian reforms

Question 16

What suggests that the majority of rebels who joined Wyatt weren’t focused on religion?

Answer 16

Only a minority of protestants would have felt that the Church and themselves were in danger so early into her reign

Question 17

What was Kent?

Answer 17

A strongly protestant country: there was local support in Maidstone (provided 78 rebels), Cranbrook, and Tonbridge

Question 18

What were Wyatt’s rebels concerned at?

Answer 18

Mary’s attachment to Catholicism and her intention to marry Philip

Question 19

Which Wyatt rebels/leaders had protestant leanings?

Answer 19

The Duke of Suffolk

Sir Peter Carew

Sir James Croft

Question 20

What did the northern earls’ resent?

Answer 20

The appointment of Bishop Pilkington to Durham

Question 21

What did the Earl of Northumberland declare?

Answer 21

That ‘our first object in assembling was the reformation of religion and preservation of the person of the Queen of Scots’

Question 22

What were the northern earls’ and what had Northumberland done in 1567?

Answer 22

Catholic

Converted

Question 23

What had the northern families done?

Answer 23

Retained the Catholic faith in spite of statutes that fined those who didn’t attend Church 5p

Question 24

What did a proclamation for the northern earls’ declare?

Answer 24

That the cause of rebellion was ‘a new found religion and heresy, contrary to Gods’ world’

Question 25

What had the Elizabethan government done?

Answer 25

Made no attempt to enforce the Act of Superiority

Question 26

What suggests that the rebels of the northern earls’ rebellion were religious?

Answer 26

The Banner of St Cuthbert was taken out of the Church

Francis Norton paraded with the Five Wounds of Christ

Question 27

What had Morton and Markenfield done?

Answer 27

Returned from the continent, warning rebels of the ‘dangers touching our souls and the loss of our country’

Question 28

What did Sir Ralph Sadler say in 1569?

Answer 28

That the common people were ‘blinded with the old popish doctrine and therefore so favour the cause which the rebels make the colour of their rebellion’

Question 29

What were the different grievances of the POG rebels?

Answer 29

Cumberland resented Tithes and the poor quality of many priests

North Lancashire/Yorkshire resented the dissolution of the monasteries. Prime concern was the restoration of the faith

Lincolnshire rebels feared that their parish churches were going to be attacked

Question 29

What had the religious changes that began under Henry VIII signalled?

Answer 29

A major break with tradition as people were accustomed to traditional Catholic practices and beliefs

Question 30

What did the POG rebels think regarding heresy?

Answer 30

That a diversity of religious beliefs among the King’s Council encourages heretical ideas

Question 30

What did the POG rebels express no concerns over?

Answer 30

The attacks on purgatory

Question 31

What did the allegations of heresy reflect during the POG?

Answer 31

The opinions of only a minority of clerics and educated laymen

Question 32

What had Henry VIII done but what would he not condone?

Answer 32

Drawn up the Act of Ten Articles in 1536, agreeing that certain reformers should be identified as heretics

An attack on Rastell (lawyer) and his archbishop Cranmer

Question 33

What did the POG rebels resent and what did they want?

Answer 33

The part Cromwell and Cranmer had played in enacting the divorce and the break from Rome

The Pope restored

Question 34

What were the POG rebels determined to do?

Answer 34

Preserve the saints they revered

Question 35

What suggests that the rebels of the POG were religious?

Answer 35

Carried the banner of St Cuthbert and the banner of the Five Wounds of Christ

Question 36

What happened at Kirkby Stephen in Westmorland?

Answer 36

There was uproar when the priest filed to offer prayers for St Luke’s Day

Question 37

What did the POG rebels call for?

Answer 37

The restoration and defence of clerical privileges

Question 38

What did the POG rebels not want to do but what were they keen to do?

Answer 38

Pay more first fruits and tenths to the King

Restore the benefit of the clergy and ecclesiastical liberties

Question 39

What happened in September 1536?

Answer 39

In Lancashire where four monasteries would be closed, monks encourage the commons to rise

Question 40

What alarmed many local people in 1536 and why?

Answer 40

Commissioners travelling through Lincolnshire

Commissioners were authorised by the Bishop of Lincoln to investigate the condition of the parish clergy and close down the smaller monasteries

Question 41

What did rebels from Louth and Horncastle do and what did they want?

Answer 41

Drew up articles requesting that their abbeys be preserved

Guarantees that their parish churches wouldn’t be closes

Question 42

What was scheduled to happen in Yorkshire and what did rebels argue?

Answer 42

The closure of over 100 monasteries and abbeys

That socioeconomic services would be affected, education would decline, and the spiritual information and preaching provided by the monks would disappear