Topic 3, theme a: Local Government

Question 1

How did Henry protect the northern borders before 1525?

Answer 1

Relying on powerful northern nobility to act as wardens in the northern marches such as: Dacres, Darcies, Percies and Nevilles.

Question 2

How does Henry VIII protect northern borders 1513-1525?

Answer 2

Wolsey chooses JP’s in the north who would support royal rather than local interests.

Question 3

When and who negotiates with the amicable grant rebels?

Answer 3

1525, Thomas Howard (Duke of Norfolk) and Charles Brandon (Duke of Suffolk).

Question 4

When does Cromwell start reforming the Marcher council and Welsh council?

Answer 4

1525

Question 5

When does Wolsey start reforming the JP’s and what does he ask them to do?

Answer 5

1526, he summons them to hear a lecture and asks them to fill out a 21-point questionnaire on how their area is doing.

Question 6

When does Cromwell re-appoint leader of the marcher council and with who?

Answer 6

1534, Rowland Lee

Question 7

When is marcher lordship abolished and what does it create and where?

Answer 7

1535, it creates English style shires in Wales

Question 8

When does who put down the Lincolnshire rising?

Answer 8

1536, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk puts it down.

Question 9

What does Henry VIII reward Charles Brandon with after the Lincolnshire rising?

Answer 9

Land in Lincolnshire

Question 10

When does who, help stop the spread of the pilgrimage of Grace to his land?

Answer 10

1536, Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby stopped the spread to his lands in Lancashire.

Question 11

Who lead the armies to confront the Pilgrimage Of Grace and when?

Answer 11

1536, George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury and Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk

Question 12

When does the act of union come into action and what does it do?

Answer 12

1536, it brings welsh law in line with Englands.

Question 13

When is the council of the north reformed and how?

Answer 13

1536-37, they are given greater powers and run by a permanent bureaucratic council rather than local nobles.

Question 14

Who was executed for participating in the Pilgrimage of Grace and when?

Answer 14

1536-37, Nobleman and Lord Thomas Darcy

Question 15

What was Cromwell appointed and when right before his death?

Answer 15

1540, Earl of Essex.

Question 16

When did the second act of union happen and what did it do?

Answer 16

1543, it strengthened council in marches and Wales and gave the council parliamentary authority.

Question 17

When is Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, arrested and imprisoned?

Answer 17

1546-53, this lead to power vacuum in East Anglia.

Question 18

When does Henry Grey and Henry Hastings crush uprisings in Leicestershire and Rutland?

Answer 18

1549

Question 19

Who puts down the prayer book rebellion and when?

Answer 19

1549, Lord John Russell and Lord William Grey

Question 20

When do Edward’s government give Lord Lieutenants more powers and why?

Answer 20

1549, after the prayer book rebellion

Question 21

Who suppresses Kett’s rebellion and when?

Answer 21

1549, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland

Question 22

When do JP’s begin to license all ale houses?

Answer 22

1552

Question 23

When is second book of prayer released?

Answer 23

1552

Question 24

When is John Dudley attainted and executed?

Answer 24

1553, for treason against Mary I

Question 25

Who was involved in Wyatt’s rebellion and when? (Nobles)

Answer 25

1554, Henry Grey (Duke of Suffolk), Edward Courtenay (Earl of Devon)

Question 26

When is Lady Jane Grey, Henry Grey and Guildford Dudley executed?

Answer 26

1554

Question 27

When was Edward Courtenay exiled?

Answer 27

1555

Question 28

When is Robert Dudley’s family lands restored?

Answer 28

1558

Question 29

What act makes JP’s responsible for collecting relief of the poor and when?

Answer 29

1563, act for the relief of the poor

Question 30

When do JP’s become responsible for fixing local wages and when?

Answer 30

1563, Statue of Artificers

Question 31

Who is the first outsider to be made Warden of the Eastern March and when?

Answer 31

Henry Carey, Lord Hudson, 1568

Question 32

Which nobles participate in the revolt of the Northern Earls and when?

Answer 32

1569, Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Charles Neville, Earl of Westmorland -Neville attainted and fled that same year.

Question 33

When was the Revolt of the Northern earls put down easily and why?

Answer 33

1569, The council of the North was led by Thomas Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex, and outsider.

Question 34

When is Cecil promoted and to what?

Answer 34

1571, Lord Burghley

Question 35

When is henry Percy rewarded with the earldom of Northumberland and why?

Answer 35

1572, after his brother is executed because he fought against him.

Question 36

When are JP’s responsible for listing the poor in each parish?

Answer 36

1572,

Question 37

When and who is the first president of the council of the north?

Answer 37

Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, 1572

Question 38

Which of Thomas More’s book criticises what and when?

Answer 38

1516, his book Utopia criticised enclosure