Secular Motives behind Rebellion

• Secular motives attributed to the rebellion

  • Economic grievances, including resentment of taxation
  • The Crown's attempts to impose the Duke of Suffolk upon Lincolnshire as a great magnate
  • Tenants' grievances in Cumberland and Westmorland
• Ordinary rebels


  Generally more motivated by economic grievances, including resentment of taxation, than their leaders
• The Crown's attempts to impose the Duke of Suffolk upon Lincolnshire as a great magnate


  May initially have sparked the rebellion in Lincolnshire
• The extension of the rebellion west of the Pennines into Cumberland and Westmorland


  Has been linked in particular to tenants' grievances