Theme 3c: Rebellions

Question 1

When did Parliament refuse to levy the amount of Tax King Henry VIII required to fun war with France?

Answer 1

1523

Question 2

When was the amicable grant rebellion and what happened?

Answer 2

1525, rebellions such as 10,000 at Lavenham in Suffolk against extra-parliamentary benevolence ‘Amicable Grant’ and Henry’s unsuccessful wars.

Question 3

How did they quash the Amicable Grant rebellion and when?

Answer 3

1525, Thomas Howard (Duke of Norfolk) and Charles Brandon (Duke of Suffolk), negotiated with Amicable grant rebels. The four ring leaders pardoned and amicable grant abandoned and blamed on Wolsey.

Question 4

When was the reformation parliament?
What was it for?

Answer 4

1529-36, to try and annul marriage to Catherine of Aragon and dissolution of monasteries.

Question 5

When was the peacetime subsidy, what was it?

Answer 5

1534, it replaced the fifteenths and tenths and taxed the rich more, and in the late 15C had been banned.

Question 7

When was the Statute of Uses?

Answer 7

1535

Question 8

When was Cromwells first set of injunctions and what did it attack?

Answer 8

1536, pilgrimages.

Question 9

When was the Lincolnshire rising and what was it sparked by?

Answer 9

1536, sparked by the visitation of the local clergy, local monastery closed and rumours relics to be taken from local church parishes. The rebels then demanded the removal of Cromwell.

Question 10

How did they quash the Lincolnshire rising? When?

Answer 10

1536, Lord Hussey fled. Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, dispersed the Lincolnshire rising without fighting and uprising’s leaders were executed for treason.

Question 11

What was the pilgrimage of Grace sparked by?

Answer 11

1536, sparked by 3 sets of government officials in Yorkshire and Cumbria. The rebels had complained about religious changes and were led by Sir Robert Aske, member of the gentry and lawyer. Marcher Lord Darcy joined the rebels.

Question 12

What did the Pilgrimage complain about and demand?

Answer 12

enclosure, rack renting, corruption, 1534 subsidy, and demanded the removal of Cromwell and Richard Rich.

Question 13

How did they quash the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Answer 13

They negotiated with Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk and dispersed while Aske was asked to spend Christmas with the King. Sir Francis Bigod realised the King was stalling for time when he promised to reconvene the Yorkshire council in 1537 and pardon the rebels so tried to restart the rebellion and Henry VIII used this as the excuse to execute them all.

Question 14

When was Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter executed and what did it lead to?

Answer 14

1538, power vacuum in south west.

Question 15

When did Henry VIII and Protector Somerset debase the coinage for wars with France and Scotland?

Answer 15

1541-51

Question 16

What was the buildup to the prayer book rebellion (western rising) and when?

Answer 16

1548-49, Duke of Sommerset launched commissions to investigate enclosure and tax on sheep to regulate pastoral farming. William Body was killed by a mon in Cornwall after he ordered the removal of images, stained glass and altar candles and inventories of church property. JPs had some of the mob hanged.

Question 16

When was Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk Arrested and what did it lead to?

Answer 16

1546-1553, power vacuum in East.

Question 17

What did the prayer book rebels demand?

Answer 17

no further religious changes made until the end of Edward VI’s minority, return to the act of six articles (1539) and partial restoration of monasteries and chantries.

Question 17

When did the prayer book rebellion happen?

Answer 17

1549, on the same day that the new common book of prayer was scheduled to be used.

Question 17

When was the 1st act of Uniformity under Edward VI, what did it entail?

Answer 17

1549, allowed the marriage of priests and published the book of common prayer.

Question 18

How was the prayer book rebellion quashed?

Answer 18

By Lord Russell’s army of 8,000 after a month of waiting.

Question 19

Why did Yeoman Robert Kent become the leader of Kett’s rebellion?

Answer 19

The rebels met him by tearing down his enclosed land and he had a change of heart and decided to side with the rebels.

Question 20

Who was Kett’s rebellion’s first target?

Answer 20

Sir John Flowerdew, who had overseen the dissolution of the Wymondham abbey in 1538 and illegally enclose this own land.

Question 20

What did Kett’s rebels write to Protector Somerset about?

Answer 20

enclosures, fishing rights, the measurement of crops and wardship

Question 21

How was Kett’s rebellion quashed?

Answer 21

John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, led an army of 13,000 and brutally crushed the rebels. Kent executed.

Question 22

When was there a VERY minor uprising against chantry commissions?

Answer 22

1549, it started in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire then spread.

Question 23

When was Mary’s rebellion against Lady Jane Grey? What happened?

Answer 23

1553, Mary I lead a rebellion all the way from east Anglia to London and overthrew Lady Jane after 9 days on the throne.

Question 24

When did Mary announce her plans to marry Phillip II of Spain?

Answer 24

1554

Question 24

Who was involved in Wyatt’s rebellion?

Answer 24

Henry Grey (Duke of Suffolk), Sir Thomas Wyatt and Edward Courtenay (Earl of Devon)

Question 25

Where did Wyatt raise forces?

Answer 25

Kent

Question 26

What was his plan?

Answer 26

TO overthrow Mary and replace her with Elizabeth I with Edward Courtenay as her husband.

Question 27

How was Wyatt’s rebellion quashed?

Answer 27

Henry Herbert (Earl of Pembroke) led Mary’s army and killed Wyatt before he could reach Mary, after a stirring speech from Mary. Elizabeth was placed under house arrest and Edward Courtenay was exiled.

Question 28

When was the Elizabethan settlement?

Answer 28

1558-63

Question 29

When did Mary Queen of Scots flee to England?

Answer 29

1568

Question 29

When was Henry Carey (Lord Hudson) made Warden of the Western March and who would the job usually have gone to?

Answer 29

1568, it usually would have gone to one of the Neville or Percy families.

Question 29

When was Elizabeth’s first ‘Accession day’ celebrated and what did it become?

Answer 29

1568, it became an annual propagandisitic celebration.

Question 30

When did the revolt of the Northern Earls begin? Where? Who?

Answer 30

1569, in Yorkshire with Catholic Mass in Durham Cathedral, started by Charles Neville (Earl of Westmoreland) and Thomas Percy (Earl of Northumberland).

Question 30

When did Thomas Howard (Duke of Norfolk) secretly plan to marry Mary and what did he do before he did it?

Answer 30

1569, but he threw himself of Elizabeth’s mercy before the rebellion.

Question 31

How was the Revolt of the Northern Earls quashed?

Answer 31

With relative ease with the queen’s army of 20,000 soldiers. Neville and Percy were attainted and fled into exile.

Question 32

When was the treason Act and Act against Bulls from Rome?

Answer 32

1571.

Question 32

When was Henry Hastings (Earl of Huntingdon) appointed President of the Northern council and why was he unsuited?

Answer 32

1572, he was a puritan, a southerner and Elizabeth I’s cousin.

Question 33

when was the treason act strengthened and what did it outlaw?

Answer 33

1581, outlawed if you try to convert someone to Catholicism.

Question 34

When and What was the Rudolf Plot?

Answer 34

1571, Roberto di Ridolfi, an Italian Catholic banker, was accused of trying to arrange the marriage of Mary to the Thomas Howard (Duke of Norfolk). The plan was for English Catholics to overthrow Elizabeth with help from Spain, for Mary to marry Norfolk and the country to be returned to Catholicism. However, Cecil and Walsingham’s discovery of the plot led to the execution of Norfolk in 1572.

Question 35

When and what was the Throckmorton plot?

Answer 35

1583. In 1582 Walsingham heard rumours of a plot involving some Scottish Jesuits, the Spanish Ambassador de Mendoza and Mary. He discovered the link between them was a young English Catholic, Francis Throckmorton. Throckmorton was arrested and under torture confessed to a plot in which France and Spain would invade England, release Mary and make her queen.He was executed and Mary was moved to more secure accommodation at Tutbury Castle, being guarded by a strict Puritan, Sir Amias Paulet.

Question 36

When and what was the Babington Plot?

Answer 36

1586, Walsingham’s spy network had been busy for over 15 years and in 1586, he was able to provide Elizabeth with proof of Mary’s direct involvement in a plot. A young English Catholic nobleman, Sir Anthony Babington, became the centre of a plot to assassinate Elizabeth and place Mary on the throne. Coded letters were discovered between Babington and Mary, offering to kill Elizabeth and keeping her informed of the progress of plot. Mary’s replies of acknowledgement were the proof Walsingham needed to directly implicate Mary in the plot.