The Amicable Grant Rising - 1525

Question 1

What is a fifteenth and tenth tax?

Answer 1

A parliamentary approved tax which is based on your movable wealth, and distributed within a village

Question 2

What is a subsidy tax?

Answer 2

A kind of tax which was created by Henry VII and based on income

Question 3

What is an amicable grant?

Answer 3

A non-parliament approved request for a gift for an amount of money, meaning that it wasn’t a popular form of tax

Question 4

What was the cause of the Amicable Grant Rising?

Answer 4

Henry VIII requested for an unpopular Amicable Grant after the heavy 1523 Subsidy

Question 5

Why did Henry VIII request for an Amicable Grant?

Answer 5

so that he could fund a war against France to get the territory that Henry V once possessed

Question 6

Where did the Amicable grant rising occur and why did this make the rebellion worse?

Answer 6

In the local area around London which is where his key support was, so if he lost those counties, he would have lost control of the whole country

Question 7

What was the most serious rising of the Amicable Grant?

Answer 7

In Lauenham and Sudbury with 4,000 members, which is not that many people

Question 8

What were the short-term consequences of the Amicable Grant rising?

Answer 8

• The tax was ended
• The leaders were compensated instead of using the army
  This was unprecedented for Tudor times but shows how Henry VIII didn’t want to fight against his local counties
• Signs a peace treaty with France while it was weak
  Shows how rebellions can change the direction of a kings plans