Unit 3: Pilgrimage of Grace Flashcards
1
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Year?
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1536
2
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Economic Causes:
A
- Bad harvests
- Taxes
- opposition to Statute of uses - tax on aristocratic landed inheritance)
3
Q
Social Causes:
A
- effects of dissolution of the monasteries
- lords, gentry, monks, nuns and peasants all involved
4
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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
5
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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)
6
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Serious?:
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- Spontaneous
- all different classes were involved
- York
- Pontefract Castle
- 40,000 rebels
- ringleader was executed
7
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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
8
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Quotes:
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C.S.L Davies; ‘it was an interaction and fusion of several grievances’
9
Q
Poor leadership
A
- accepted pardon at river don
- persuaded by Henry VIII that he’d listen to their demands
10
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Why did it fail?
A
- Acceptance of Pardon at River Don
- Persuaded by Henry VIII
- not using force/ had 30,000 people ended up being pardoned
