Question | Answer |
French sent army to Scotland in what year defeating rebels at St Andrew (under Somerset) | July 1547 |
Somerset's response to French sending an army to Scotland in July 1547 | Organised army of 18,000 and a fleet of 60 ships under Edward Lord Clinton and marched across the border on the 4th of September 1547 |
When did the new French army arrive and England forced onto the defensive | May 1548 |
When did Mary Queen of Scots leave to marry the French Dauphin (later Francis II) | July 1548 |
What did Mary Queen of Scot's marriage to the French Dauphin mean for English control of Boulogne | It became untenable |
Peace that surrendered Boulogne and left France in a dominating position in Scotland | January 1550 |
How much did the war cost under Somerset between England and France | £300,000 + the debasement of he coinage continued |
What Parliament under Somerset repealed the laws against heresy | The Parliament of 1547 |
What else did the Parliament of 1547 repeal regarding religious policy | The Act of Six Articles passed during Henry VIII's reactionary years |
Which Act condemned all Chantries | Act of 1545 |
What are chantries | Priests funded to say masses for the souls of the dead |
What did Somerset do to progress his Act of 1545 condemning all Chantries | Moved to have this ratified and to seize their endowments in 1547 |
What acts were passed in 1549 | Allowing priests to marry and ordering that the laity should receive both bread and wine at communion |
How did Somerset move over ceremonial changes | More slowly, but did introduce a new English Prayer Book |
Price of food increased steeply when while what barely increased | In 1540s and wages barely increased |
In real terms how much did wages decline by | 1/2 |
Two main causes of price inflation | Increasing population and the great debasement |
The value of English currency abroad ...., but ...... remained stagnant | The value of English currency abroad FELL but CLOTH EXPORTS remained stagnant |
A mass of wage earners and all those on fixed incomes fared how to these conditions | THEY SUFFERED SEVERELY |
Social unrest heightened by two main things with what being blamed for inflation | Hunger / poverty with many blaming enclosure of land for inflation |
Somerset tried to persuade Parliament to | Take steps against enclosure but to no avail |
Serious popular unrest from Spring of 1549 onwards = result of 3 main factors | Anger at enclosures / poor harvests / spread of plague |
Rebellion broke out in Devon and Cornwall in | 1549 (the Western Rebellion) |
What did the Cornish-speaking populace resent | the English liturgy that the new Prayer Book put in place of the familiar Latin service |
Who were they joined by | conservative clerics and some local gentlemen. |
The rebels laid siege to where / when until dispersed by an army of what troops when | The rebels laid siege to Exeter (10 June) until dispersed by an army of Italian and German mercenary troops in August. |
When did the Kett rebellion start | July 1549 |
Norfolk rebels were what religion and what was their main grievance based around | The Norfolk rebels were Protestants and their main grievances were economic. |
Who was their leader and why | Robert Kett (Kett Rebellion) a local landowner became the rebels' leader when he cooperated in the tearing down of his own fences as well as others that had enclosed common land |
What was his staring point and how many men was he able to rally up | From his starting point in Wymondham, he was able to rally 12,000 men |
Where did Kett's forces camp and what was their initial progress | Kett's forces camped on Mousehold Heath outside Norwich, captured the city and repulsed the initial attacks of government forces |
Who forced the rebels out of Norwich and routed the rebels nearby at Dussindale AND WHEN | In August, John Dudley, Earl of Warwick forced the rebels out of Norwich and routed the rebels nearby at Dussindale. |
How many rebel soldiers were killed or executed | Almost 3,000 rebel soldiers were killed and fifty more were executed afterwards |
Which Privy Councillors were working for Somerset's overthrow | John Dudley, Earl of Warwick and Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton |
Who wanted Somerset stripped of power | Both factions - the conservative Catholic supporters of Mary, and the Protestant reformers now led by Warwick - |
When was he re-arrested and executed and by who on what grounds | He was re-arrested in October 1551 on flimsy charges of conspiracy, because Northumberland feared that he was trying to organize a counter-coup. He was executed January 1552. |
Want to create your own Flashcards for free with GoConqr? Learn more.