Edwardian Society

• What was significant about the year 1549?


  There were major Tudor rebellions
• When was the Western Rebellion?


  June 1549
• What is the Western Rebellion also referred to as?


  The 'Prayer Book Rebellion
• What were the causes of the Western Rebellion?

  Religion, Economy (sheep tax) and the distrust between rural labourers and landowners
• Why was religion the main cause of the Western Rebellion?

  The Book of Common Prayer 1549 being the catalyst but with rebels wanting the religious reforms to be reversed and the experience of religion restored
• When was Kett's Rebellion?


  July 1549
• What were the causes of Kett's Rebellion?

  Hatred of local officials, Resentment of the abuse of landowners of the Norfolk Foldcourse and the maladministration locally of the Howards
• What was the Norfolk Foldcourse?

  Foldcourse was the to right graze sheep on enclosed pieces of land

  - rights held by peasant farmers, but sometimes landowners denied them access to the foldcourse

  - Denial of access to foldcourse increased discontent
• How was the Western Rebellion surppressed?

  By Lord Russel and foreign mercenaries
• How was Kett's Rebellion surppressed?

  Earl of Northampton tried and failed which was humiliating. The Earl of Warwick and foreign mercenaries brutally suppressed the rebels with Kett executed.
• Which two reforming traditions were contesting each other in Edward's reign?

  Evangelical humanism (associated with those who followed Erasmus) and Radical Protestantism
• What are some examples of humanist influences during Edward's reign?

  Edward's tutor John Cheke, Archbishop Cranmer, Cecil encouraged humanist scholars at Cambridge, humanist reformers Peter Martyr and Martin Bucer were invited to work in England and 1547 injuctions required a copy of Erasmus' Paraphrases
• How were both contending groups destroyed?

  By Edward's death