The Effects Of Rebellion On Government And Society: Policy Changes Flashcards
Which crown servants were targets of attacks from rebellions?
Morton, Bray, Wosley, Cromwell, Audley, Rich, Cranmer, William and Robert Cecil
What years did Cromwell dissolve larger monasteries?
1537-1538
What did most abbots and abbesses do after the Pilgrimage of Grace?
Surrender their convents voluntarily in anticipation of parliamentary legislation
What in 1538 further conformed the government’s reformed stance in respect of saints, pilgrimages an holy days?
Cromwell’s Injunctions of 1538
Which action by Edward VI angered Catholics in Devon and Cornwall, leading to the Western rebellion
He did not recall the English prayer book.
Though both rebels were remove pf having tp [ay their way tax, what was the different in punishment for the Cornish rebels in 1497 compared to the Yorkshire rebels in 1489?
Cornwall the county was heavily fined and the kind gig not attempt to introduce tax novelties again
What was the most successful rebellion for the rebels?
The Amicable Grant, no one paid any tax, no benevolence was received and a parliamentary subsidy that still had tow of its four instalments to be collected was reassessed at more modes rates for fear of reigniting a taxpayers strike
What were the two positive changes of the Pilgrimage of Grace for the rebels?
Unlawful enclosures and excessive entry fines had been cause of rioting in Westmorland and Cumberland in 1535 and to combat this the earls of Sussex and Derby were instructed by the king to examine the landlord-tenants relations in Kendal, the Vale of Eden and Craven, with the commissioners appearing to have been successful as no further disturbances occurred in this region in the 1540s during a time when much of the country was experiencing severe social and economic issues
The gentry and lesser nobility complied about the Statue of Uses 1536 and capped for its repeal which happened in 1540 when a new Statue of Wills allowed testator the right to distribute 2/3s of their property without incurring the payment of feudal taxes to the Crown
What were the several responses from the Edwardian government after rebellions in 1549?
The arrest and imprisonment of the Duke of Somerset by privy councillors as they held him responsible for the political crisis in 1549
The ‘Act for the Punishment of Unlawful Assemblies and Rising of the King’s subjects’ declared it high treason if twelve fire people gathered to alter existing laws or tried to kill or imprision a privy councillor or refused to disperse within 1 hour
It was declared treason if 40 or more people gathered for more than 2 hours
To improve the quality of cicvil defence in counties, lords lieutenant were given control of the shire levies
