Unit 3: Pilgrimage of Grace Flashcards

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Year?

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1536

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Economic Causes:

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  • Bad harvests
  • Taxes
  • opposition to Statute of uses - tax on aristocratic landed inheritance)
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3
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Social Causes:

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  • effects of dissolution of the monasteries

- lords, gentry, monks, nuns and peasants all involved

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Religious Causes:

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  • Break from Rome
  • Changes to their religious practices
  • Dissolution of the monasteries; effected a lot of people (2,000 redundant)
  • monks and nuns were made redundant
  • people still wanted Papal Supremacy
  • Robert Aske - leader of POG against dissolution of the monasteries
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Political Causes:

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  • Thomas Cromwell was attacked (not the monarch) as he was an ‘evil advisor’ and they wanted him removed
  • Gentry and lords involved
  • Parliament in the North
  • Central government was interfering
  • dwindling authority of some northern families (Lord Hussey, Earl of Northumberland, Duke of Norfolk)
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Serious?:

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  • Spontaneous
  • all different classes were involved
  • York
  • Pontefract Castle
  • 40,000 rebels
  • ringleader was executed
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Not Serious?:

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  • Spontaneous
  • Rebels believed in monarchy and weren’t out to replace king
  • pardon accepted twice in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire
  • regionalised
  • disjointed
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8
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Quotes:

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C.S.L Davies; ‘it was an interaction and fusion of several grievances’

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9
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Poor leadership

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  • accepted pardon at river don

- persuaded by Henry VIII that he’d listen to their demands

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10
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Why did it fail?

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  • Acceptance of Pardon at River Don
  • Persuaded by Henry VIII
  • not using force/ had 30,000 people ended up being pardoned
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