Unit 31 - Rebellion and disorder under the Tudors, 1485-1603
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Kett rebellion
causes
enclosure Commonwealth poverty Somersets commissions
men
Enclosure => profit from cloth trade from less power, done by erecting Reformers such as Rapid population growth => demand Protestant, protected copyhold tenants on his land and
hedges and impacted poorest worst Hales wanted a godly growth => pressure on land => price rises appointed Hales to oversee socio-economic reforms but
- Engrossing (combined farms then evicting tenants) commonwealth and almost all of his bills failed in parliament (except the
- Rack renting (rapidly increasing rent to force tenants out) saw enclosure as a More unemployment => vagrancy => 1549 sheep tax) as landed elite
- Copyhold tenants => most vulnerable as they needed a copy of nuisance and a source 1547 vvagracncy act => branding and 2 - Issued commissions but lacked the power to
the lease as did the owners of social issue years of slavery => anger take action - only 1 went ahead due to
- 1517 - Wolsey tried to regulate (influenced Somerset) opposition, demands for commissioners to
- 1449 - sheep tax Poor harvests in 45/ 49 => shortages destroy enclosures deemed illegal
Regionally dependant (ie in Suffolk folder closure tensions, in areas with Debassement of coinage => inflation - Consequences => made enemies of the first
a worse solid sheep farming was an issue line of defence (landed elite) and commoners
thought the “good duke” was on their side”
rebellion
Western rebellion Rebellion origins / gathering momentum Actions, demands and petitions organisation
1549 in Devon and Most nobility was at Windsor for a meeting (no landlords) - Enclosure commissions and socioeconomic issues + Well organised and able to sustain local
Cornwall => over the Began on a festival day => and started destroying corruption of east Anglia Gentry camps with local gov cooperation as they
book of common Flowerdews enclosures (an unpopular local figure due to his - Flowerdew/ others unpopular had homes vandalised were peaceful
prayers (mainly role as the overseer of the destruction of a local abbey), - Lord Sheffield beaten to death but few cases of this - - Used Mousehold to show how
catholic) - some nobility tried to get them to turn on Kett but he sided with the rebels rebels wanted to maintain social hierarchy local government should run (law
involvement and meant and started destroying his enclosure. - Order maintained in camps with government courts, and order fully maintained) =>
that resources were councils and trials believe Somerset condoned their
scarce and spread out Gathering momentum => Norwich was the second largest actions and some gentry
city and administrative hub with big divides between the rich Petition => Norfolk it was against fold closure, everyone was captured were treated roughly
and the poor against corruption and lack of respect from sheep farmers, rack - France and England war 9aug
Camps in Norfolk/Suffolk overwhelmed the remaining local renting, corruption of feodary (court officers who would collect royal => new strain
gentry (Kett did not seek for the gentry to join) => mouse rent and value land) who enriched themselves, wanted the power to - Didn’t resent hierarchy but rather
hold camp 16000 strong and the local government was nominated local officials the greed and chose to stay in
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