Tactics Flashcards
What were the Tudor government’s main weapons and why?
Their claim to be legitimate rulers and the fact that they derived their authority from God
Anyone who fought against them would be condemned as a sinner
What did the governments stress the need for?
Upholding order, using a range of tactics to persuade rebels to disperse
What did governments seek to do?
Buy time until they had enough troops to call the rebels’ bluff
What did governments want to do and why?
Avoid violent confrontations
The outcome was uncertain and they were always expensive
What was common, what was the effect, and give examples:
For pardons to be offered to rebels if they would first disperse
Weakened the morale of some rebels and reduced their numbers
Rebels at Stoke, Blackheath, Clyst St Mary, and Dussindale were offered a pardon on the eve of the battle. A royal herald in 1554 gave Wyatt’s rebels a chance to go home
Why did most governments see no mileage in negotiating with rebels?
It was a sign of weakness and would only serve to encourage rebel leaders
What did confrontations have to be?
Skilfully handled
What did Wolsey receive in April 1525 and what did he do?
A report that several people were refusing to pay the Amicable Grant
Told the Lord Mayor of London, Sir William Bailey, ‘beware and resist not’ and threatened Lord Lisle with execution if he failed to collect taxes
What did Wolsey advise when the Duke of Suffolk reported that protestors were becoming more vociferous?
Wolsey advised stiff retribution and accused the duke of being oversensitive
What happened on 25 April 1525?
Henry informed the Lord Mayor and aldermen that the Amicable Grant would be halved
None of the commissioners outside London was informed
Reports of hundreds of protestors gathering and 4000 protestors gathered at Lavenham
How did Norfolk and Suffolk deal with the rebellion in 1525?
Suffolk’s army of retainers was much smaller than the rebels’ forces and was unsure of the reliability of his men
Suffolk waited for Norfolk
Suffolk destroyed bridges
Heard a deputation of 60 rebels, warned them of the consequences, and persuaded them to submit
How did Henry VIII and Cromwell deal with POG at first?
Allowed Norfolk to negotiate with the rebels
Norfolk’s and Shrewsbury’s 8000 troops dwarfed by 30,000 rebels
Norfolk decided to arrange a truce with the gentry, promise whatever was needed to disperse their army, and pacify the disaffected rebels
What did Henry VIII favour but what happened?
A military solution but bowed to Norfolk’s more diplomatic approach
Norfolk assured Henry that ‘whatsoever promise I shall make unto the rebels for surely I shall observe no part thereof for any respect of that other might call mine honour’
What happened on 27 October 1936?
Norfolk talked only to the gentry and nobles
Darcy reflected how the commons feared they might be betrayed ‘because we tarried a while about the entreaty’
Norfolk stemmed the advancing rebels, separated the rank and file from the leaders, and escorted four of them to Windsor
What was Henry VIII’s tactic now?
Stand firm
Refused to discuss their petition, rejected pleas to reverse his policies and told them to go away and clarify their grievances
Where were the representatives kept and what did this result in?
Waiting in London for over three weeks
The commons suspecting they might not return
What happened on 6 December 1536?
A meeting between pilgrims and Norfolk took place when the duke promised that a parliament would resolve the issues behind the rebellion, there would be no monastic suppressions, and the rebels would receive a pardon
What did Henry VII spend the next month doing?
Gathering information, interviewing the gentry and nobles involved in the uprising, and deciding what to do about the north
What was the Duke of Somerset’s response to the news that Exeter was under attack?
Sent a series of letters to the camp urging them to desist, offering them a pardon if they did, and threatening dire punishment if they did not
What were the proclamations on 11 July, 12 July, and 16 July?
Threatened to forfeit their land and property to create terror and division
Pardoned any guilty of riotous assembly if they made a humble submission
Pardoned submissive rioters but future offenders were threatened with martial law
What did Somerset’s fellow councillors do?
William Paget criticised his leniency in promising to listen to the rebels’ grievances
Herbert and Wariwck favoured swift repression
Pressed him to send troops to Devon and Norfolk
How was propaganda used in response to the POG?
Richard Morrison declared that ‘obedience is the badge of a Christian man’
Henry rejected the Lincoln rebels’ petition, ordered them to disperse, said that the rebels were ‘one of the most brute and beastly of the whole realm’, and warned that Suffolk was gathering a 100,0000-strong army
Henry condemned disobedience, asking ‘when every man will rule, who shall obey’ in his Remedy for Sedition
Little impact
What did Thomas Cranmer do in 1529?
Attacked the Western rebels’ religious ignorance and brazen effontery
Said that the rebels ‘be taught to speak and yet understood not one world what they say’
What was Philip Nichols commissioned to do in 1549?
Write a lengthy criticism of the rebel articles, which he condemned on moral and religious grounds