Kett Rebels Flashcards
(13 cards)
Made reason for rebellion
Resentment over enclosure
What was a escheator
Local official to ensure royal rights and privileges upheld
What advantages did flowerdew have being the escheator for Norfolk
Opportunity to make extra money through brides and intimidation
What did rebels attack as to show resentment towards gentlemen
Rabbit warrens and deer parks as only meant to be eaten by gentlemen
Example of when rebels anger towards gentry turned to violence
Lord sheffeld in Norwich beaten to death 31 July
Examples of how rebels were trying to demonstrate a better local government
Kett kept order within the tanks , adopted a system of government writs and commissions to issue orders for supplies of food and drink and memebers of gentry who were captured out on trial before kett at the oak of reformation
What was the oak of reformation
Where kett would trial members of gentry captured
Overall what did rebels wnat
Wanted social hierarchy to remain but for landed elites to play a different role in that hierarchy and not exploit the commons
What rebellion were the rebels inspired by
Rising for 1381 where rebels demanded all bondmen to be free (peasant whose rights restricted and controlled by lord of manor)
What were the rebels opinions on feodary and escheator
There unpaid local officials open to bribes and corruption so would manipulate their findings so would protect landlord and rob the crown potentially
Who did they want the local government officials chosen by
The people
Why were the rebels religious demands
We’re Protestant but worried about the eduction of some members of the clergy being properly educated and corrupted states that clergymen unable to preach properly should be removed
Role of feodary
Duty was to search out potential heirs of landowners who held thier land directly from the king
