amicable grant

Question 1

duration

Answer 1

3 months

1525

Question 2

location

Answer 2

across 5 counties in eastern and south-eastern England

Question 3

leadership

Answer 3

no major leaders- “his name is poverty”

Question 4

outcome

Answer 4

abandoned aggressive FP- all blame on Wolsey

protests in Suffolk

change in tax policy in future- more from rich, less from poor

Question 5

cause

Answer 5

£800,000 of tax in form of forced loan to back the planned invasion of France

Question 6

subsidiary causes

Answer 6

rising unemployment

rising inflation

prices up 60% since 1520

12% drop in peasant income

Question 7

degree of threat

Answer 7

never a political threat to the throne, only its policies

Question 8

reasons for success

Answer 8

avoided violence to show they were loyal to the crown and only protesting the tax

ready to march to London - focus of the rebellion to the capital

Question 9

rebels

Answer 9

4,000 gathered in Suffolk to march on London

outnumbered the Duke of Suffolks numbers

Question 10

resentment at the tax

Answer 10

huge loan of £250,000 raised in 1522-3

Four subsidies across four years in 1523

It was non-parliamentary- forced by Wolsey