AQA A-Level Edward VI

Somerset accused of populism

1549- overthrown by the nobility, shows ruling nobility would unite to ensure stability

Enclosure Crisis

A protest against the shift from arable farming to wool production- less to less employment and inflation a bigger problem

- April 1549 Proclamations- against enclosure and against Council

- July 1549 Proclamation- Commission hear and determine cases (looks as though Somerset is taking the peasant' side)

Class Uprisings

Spring/Summer 1549- hot summer, crops failed, prices fixed at London levels, biggest rebellion since 1381, but; not attacking Edward or Somerset rather the local gentry

- Guy "Closest thing to a class war"

Treaty of Boulogne

1550- raised £133,333, Northumberland gives back to France in return for money, also secures peace and less risk of invasion, part of N'land's attempted financial reform

Mary's Foiled Escape

May 1550- tries to escape but fails- she's a figurehead for Catholicism and shows their lack of support and success

Social Distress

1549-1551- inflation increase of 90% due to poor harvests of 1550-51, flour x2 in price

Kett's rebellion

1549- angry at local gentry concerning the enclosure crisis, marched on Norwich, set up camp at Mousehold Heath, seized sheep (protest against the move to wool farming), enkennelled themselves

Injunctions

1547- against the use of idols, homilies on Sola Fide (justification by faith alone), abolition of chantries and guilds, Chantries Act

Acts of Parliament

1547- abolition of chantries and repealed the act of 6 articles

Feb 1548- all images demolished

Book of Common Prayer, Act of Uniformity

1549- evidence of doctrinal ambiguity (Holy Days remained, worship of Saints discouraged not banned, purgatory unclear), transubstantiation not explicitly rejected in the book

Western rebellion

1549- motivated by religion, direct challenge to perceived evangelical shift, marched under the banner of the 5 wounds of Christ, demanded the reinstatement of the Act of 6 Articles

Cranmer's new Ordinal

1550- altars illegal, majority down by 1553

Gardiner and Bonner imprisoned

1551

Bills against missals, antiphonies and images

November 1552

Rejection of transubstantiation

1551- London debates, New Book of Common Prayer 1552

Second Act of Uniformity

1552- vestments illegal

Cranmer's 42 Articles

1553- mixture of Lutheran and Calvinist theology, the basis of 39 articles under Liz- very reformist

Edward's Death

6th July 1553- becomes very ill- knew there was a chance he would die, a myth that he was a sickly child: likely he would've become a skilled and strong king

Lady Jane Grey

May 1553- married Guildford Dudley (N'land's son), Edward and N'land overturned will and 1544 Act of Succession to put LJG on throne, she was crowned 10th July 1553, Mary crowned 19th July 1553