Rebellions

• When was the amicable grant?

  1525
• Where was resistance to the amicable grant focused?


  Around Essex and Suffolk .
• How was resistance to the amicable grant resolved?


  The dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk handled the matter sensitively and the King backed down, Wolsey begged the King for leniency towards the leaders of the resistance.
• When did the Lincolnshire rising and the pilgrimage of grace begin?

  October 1536.
• Where was the Lr and pog focused?

  Lincolnshire, the east riding of Yorkshire and parts of the west riding.
• What were some of the religious motives for the Pog?


  Discontent towards the dissolution of the monasteries which provided education, charity and fear this would lead to the dissolution of Parish churches. Further the 1536 injunctions were seen as attacking traditional religious practices.
• Who was Robert Ask?


  The leader of the pilgrimage of grace and supporter of the monasteries.
• What were some of the secular motives for the pog and Lr?


  ordinary rebels resented taxation, attempts to impose the Duke of Suffolk upon Lincolnshire as a great magnate may have sparked the rebellion, and Elton has suggested the rebellion was sparked by councillors who supported the late Catherine of Aragon.
• What is significant about the Pontefract articles?


  They suggest a number of religious grievances but also regional ones with demands parliament meet at York. There was also significant anger directed at Cromwell.
• How did the outnumbered Duke of Norfolk diffuse the rebellion?


  He promised pardons, the restoration of the monasteries and a free parliament.
• What happened when the rebellion renewed in Feb 1537?


  Norfolk declared martial law and hanged 74 rebels, Robert Ask was also hung.