Rest and rebellion Flashcards
Western rebellion events
- Often called the prayer book rebellion
Events before hand suggested religious motivation - murder of William Body was murdered at Helston 1548 when he returned to supervise the destruction of images
- A large number gathered at Bodmin to protest the Act of uniformity
events - major unrest started at Sampford Courtney 1549.
- Protests spread and rebels from Devon and Cornwall met at credition
Western Rebellion: causes/ motivation
Demands (religious)
- Largely religious but this may have been because those writing the demands were priests
- traditional doctrine
- asserted belief in transubstantiation and Purgatory
**Demands (non religious)
- initial complaints included attack on sheep and cloth tax
- rebels shouted ‘kill the gentlemen’
- William Hellyons, local member of the gentry, was killed
- Attacked trematon castle
- dislike of the gentry made rebels hard to restrain and John Russel was slow to arrive with aid as he put down rebellions in Oxford and Buckinghamshire en route
Western rebellion results
- rebellion was put down in Sampford Courtney
- 3000 rebels were killed as retribution
Ketts rebellion: causes and motivation
- unrest began as riots against enclosure
- Rioters were angry at local lord Flowerdew who had bought the abby
Kett’s rebellion: events
- Flowerdew attempted to turn the rebels of Kett but failed
- Kett raised 15,000 men who marched to Norwich and camped on Mousehold heath
- they stayed for 6 weeks
1549 rebellions (talk)
Gen
- the Tudors came down heavily on the rebels
- there was no ‘standing army’ so England was ruled on consent
- ‘popular rebellions’ never happened again (Wyatts was a political and gentry, Northern earls were gentry/ regime change)
- the lower gentry stopped supporting lower class people because they had more to loose
Western:
- Debate that ‘kill the gentry’ was made up
Kett
- 49 people were hung
Issues (talk)
- was not a class war: even in Kett’s when there were trails of the gentry, they were imprisoned not killed
- ‘social and economic changes had pushed them to their limits’ - common land, sheep tax, enclosure.
- when Henry VIII gets rid of the church he reduces well fair significantly
- the nobles/ landowners were meant to be paternalistic but were not
- there was heavy inflation, Henry was so poor he only had a slab over his grave
- people liked the chantries and parish churches
Results (talk)
- Kett’s body was left up for months. people who asked to take it down were charged with being Kett’s sympathisers
