English society

• how many involved in the Lincolnshire reusing and the pilgrimage of grace

  around 40,000
• how much property from the monasteries had been sold off by 1547

  nearly 2/3
• 1525 opposition of Amicable Grant


  1000 people on Essex- Suffolk border refused to pay
• Causes of rebellion


  fear about monasteries, fear for the parish church, economic grievances
• Cause of the Pilgrimage of Grace

  resentment at the dissolution of monasteries and attacks on the Catholic church
• Yorkshire rebellion


  1513
• Suffolk


  given property in Lincolnshire after the rebellion in 1536 and remained loyal
• How were nobles treated?

  given property and titles and authority in areas.

  Executed if any doubts of loyalty.

  Given knighthoods in sign of royal favour.

  Gained land from the dissolution
• How did peasants change?

  some acquired copyholds to land and could increase their holdings. Some became yeomen, making profit
• Why were rebels hostile towards gentry

  grievances against landlords