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what are evil councillors?
advisors to the monarch and were labelled as evil for giving bad advise to the monarch yet no evil councillor was ever removed
what rebellions had a cause due to evil councillors?
cornish - 1497
amicable grant - 1525
pilgrimage of grace - 1536-7
wyatt - 1554
northern earls - 1569
essex - 1601
What did all the rebellions that had evil councillors as a cause have in common?
they all had evil councillors as a minor cause
cornish rebellion - Henry VII
reginal broy and john morton were dubbed evil councillors
amicable grant - Henry VIII
complained about cordinal wolsey - who put the tax in place
Pilgrimage of grace - Henry VIII
cromwell, cranmer, audley and rich were targeted in ballads and manifestos (the pontefract articles)
wyatt rebellion - Mary I
‘we seek no harm to the queen but better counsel and councillors’
northern earls - Elizabeth I
they held william cecil responsible for the revolts
Essex rebellion - Elizabeth I
wanted to remove cecil as elizabeths principal adviser
