Religious Causes Of Rebellion - The Pilgrimage Of Grace (1536)

Question 1

Who and why sent the first ecclesiastical commissioners through Lincolnshire in 1536?

Answer 1

The Bishop of Lincoln to investigate the condition of the parish clergy

Question 2

Why was the second ecclesiastical commissioners sent into Lincolnshire in 1536?

Answer 2

Authorised by the government to close down the smaller monasteries

Question 3

What caused resentment in Lincolnshire in 1536?

Answer 3

Two sets of ecclesiastical commissioners travelling through Lincolnshire

Question 4

What were the articles that were drawn up from the rebels from Louth and Horncastle?

Answer 4

That their abbeys should be preserved and wanting guarantees that their parish churches would not be closed

Question 5

How many monasteries and abbeys were scheduled to close before the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Answer 5

100

Question 6

What did the rebels argue would disappear with the monasteries after the dissolution?

Answer 6

A range of social and economic services would be affected, the poor and children’s education would decline and ‘spiritual information and preaching’ provided by monks would disappear

Question 7

Why were people in Lancashire protesting after being encouraged by monks in September 1536?

Answer 7

Because four monasteries were closed

Question 8

Before trouble broke out in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire what were people in Lancashire suspected of doing in protest to the dissolution of the monasteries?

Answer 8

Buying up arms

Question 9

What did many rebels think the king’s council and convocation were encouraging?

Answer 9

heretical ideas, which had to be stopped

Question 10

What did King Henry VIII draw up in July 1536 to clarify his theological position?

Answer 10

Act of Ten Articles

Question 11

Which continental reformers would King Henry VIII identify as heretics?

Answer 11

Luther and Bucer and English common lawyers Rastell and St German, as Henry did not condone an attack on his own archbishop Cranmer

Question 12

What did King Henry’s government assault that was a major cause of protest in the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Answer 12

Saints, pilgrimages and holy days

Question 13

Why was their uproar at Kirkby Stephen in Westmorland in the 1530s?

Answer 13

When the priest failed to offer prayers for the forthcoming St Luke’s Day

Question 14

What banner did Durham protesters carry?

Answer 14

St Cuthbert

Question 15

What banner did the pilgrims’ carry?

Answer 15

The Five Wounds of Christ

Question 16

What did people not want to pay anymore and restore the benefit of clergy and ecclesiastical liberties under King Henry VIII?

Answer 16

First fruit and tenths

Question 17

What did the Pilgrimage of Grace rebels think was contrary to God’s law?

Answer 17

The recent Act of Supremacy and wanted the Pope to be head of the Church

Question 18

What were people in the Cumberland and the region west of the Pennines upset about rather than the closure of the monasteries after the changes in 1536?

Answer 18

The resentment at tithes and the poor quality of many priests

Question 19

What was the main concern of the people in north Lancashire and much of Yorkshire after the 1536 changes?

Answer 19

The dissolution and the restoration of the true faith

Question 20

What was the main concern of those in Lincolnshire after the 1536 changes?

Answer 20

The fear that their parish churches were going to be attacked