Rebellion and Disorder under the Tudors

1485

Henry VII becomes king

1487

Simnel defeated at Battle of Stoke

1499

Execution of Warbeck and Warwick

1513

Introduction of the Tudor Subsidy

1534

First Act of Supremacy

1535

First Law in Wales Act

1549

Kett's Rebellion

1559

Elizabeth's via media settlement

via media

middle way

1568

Mary Queen of Scots arrives in England

1569-70

Rebellion of the Northern Earls

1588

Spanish Armarda

1594

Beginning of Tyrone's Rebellion

1598

Act for the Relief of the Poor

1603

Death of Elizabeth I

The Great Chain of Being

Concept of Tudor social order

1504

Parliament objects to Henry VII's taxation

1509

Henry VIII takes the throne

1515

Hunne Affair

1523

Parliament opposes more high taxation

1529

Fall of Wolsey

1533

Act in Restraint of Appeals

1553

Accession of Mary I

1547

Accession of Edward VI

1540

Establishment of new Privy Council

1554

Repeal of Act of Supremacy

1558

Accession of Elizabeth I

1562

Thirty Nine Articles passed

1585

War with Spain, permanence of Lord Lieutenants

1597

First monopolies debate in Parliament

1601

Second monopolies debate, golden speech

Yeomen

Peasants who have collected some wealth and land

Vagrants

People out of work

Artisans

People with a craft and trade

Gentry

Land owning class

Nobility

Landed and titled, very powerful

Privy Chamber

People who held positions close to the monarch

Privy Council

Advisory body to the monarch

Eltham Ordinances

Proposal to decrease the size of the Council

Dry stamp

Stamp holding the monarch's signature

Duke of Somerset

First protector of Edward

Duke of Northumberland

Edward's second protector

Lord Lieutenant

Person responsible for taxation and troops in an area

Justices of the Peace

Law enforcement for the localities

Reformation Parliament

A series of parliaments 1529-34 for legislating on religion

Indulgences

The practise of selling forgiveness for sins, viewed as corrupt

Sanctuary

Church ability to protect criminals seeking refuge

Benefit of the Clergy

Right of the clergy to be tried in Church, not state, courts

Hunne Case

Abuses of the Church creating widespread anticlericalism

1552

Second Book of Common Prayer published

1566

Publication of the Book of Advertisements

1577

Suspension of Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury

1587

Attempt to reform the structure of the Church

1593

Act against Seditious Secretaries

Auld Alliance

Mutual agreement of support between France and Scotland

1484

Henry gains support for his invasion of England from France

1485-92

Anglo-French relations deteriorated

1487

Death of Duke of Brittany

1489

Failed defence of Brittany by England

October 1492

England invade France

1492

Treaty of Etaples

1494

Beginning of Italian wars, securing England against foreign invasion

1495

Scotland stabilised enough to pose a threat

1486

Truce between England and Scotland

1493

Truce between England and Scotland renewed

1495

James IV welcomes Warbeck

September 1496

Warbeck invades England, supported by Scotland

May - June 1497

Rising in Cornwall

Tax

Cause of the rising in Cornwall

July 1497

Warbeck leaves Scotland

September 1497

Truce of Ayton signed

1533

Henry annuls marriage to Catherine of Aragon

1534

Treason Act

1534

Collection of peace time subsidy

1535

Act of Uses

1535

Valor Ecclesiasticus

1536

Act of Ten Articles

1536

Injunctions to the Clergy

1536

Act for the Dissolution of Smaller Monasteries

October 1536

Lincolnshire Rebellion

October - December 1536

Pilgrimage of Grace

January 1537

Bigod's Rising

1537

Council of the North re-established

1541

Unrest in the north

1541

Henry VIII goes on a progress to York

1535

Cromwell appointed Vicegerent of Spirituals

Latimer

Reformist bishop appointed by Cromwell

Cranmer

Reformist alongside Cromwell

April 1535

Order to imprison anti-Pope clergymen

Rich and Cromwell

Reformers targeted by rebels

More and Fischer

Two people who refused to swear the oath of supremacy

1535

More and Fischer executed

Darcy, Hussey, Northumberland

Three people in Court who were in the conservative faction

900

Religious houses in England

12k

Number of people in religious orders

1.3 million

Amount of money raised by the dissolution of the monasteries

Legh and Layton

Two commissioners sent to assess the morals of the clergy

Louth

Origin of Lincolnshire Rebellion

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Articles in the Pontefract Articles

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Pontefract Articles referring to religion