Religious Causes of Rebellion - The Western Rebellion (1549)

Question 1

What counties did not like the Edwardian reformation in the summer of 1549?

Answer 1

Cornwall, Devon and Norfolk

Question 2

How many of the articles drawn up by rebel captains at their camp near Exeter show that they wanted restoration not reformation?

Answer 2

13 out of 14

Question 3

What did the rebels in the Western rebellion reject about the Edwardian Reformation?

Answer 3

The English prayer book, which the called ‘a Christmas game’, the English Bible and the revised liturgy of 1547, apart from the clergy, few would be able to read or understand the liturgy but it was no longer latin and that was unacceptable

Question 4

What did the Western rebellion rebels demand?

Answer 4

Return of papal relics and images, restoration of chantries, at least two monasteries in every county, a latin mass that was celebrated with bread only, a return to the Act of Six Articles of 1539

Question 5

What did government propagandist Philip Nichols call local priests who can be attributed to much of the hysteria surrounding the protestant reforms of the Edwardian reformation?

Answer 5

‘Whelps of the Romish litter’