Rebellions against Edward VI(Pages 132-133)

Western, Kett’s

What were the 2 rebellions in 1549?

mainly enclosure and resentment at greedy landlords abusing their position of trust=>commoners began to doubt Great Chain of Being, economic hardship from inflation

What caused Kett’s rebellion(1549)?

large, Norfolk, 1549

Kett’s rebellion was a ______ scale uprising in _______ in ____

Robert Kett

• Norfolk farmer and landowner from Wymondham, lead 16k men into Norwich

• One of the landowners whose property was attacked, but he agreed to end enclosure on his estates and offered to lead the rebels to secure their rights

July 8 - R. Kett leads 16k men into Norwich

July 22 - Kett captures Norwich

Aug 26 - Earl of Warwick, John Dudley, received 1k mercenaries to fight rebels

Aug 27 - Warwick defeats rebels at Battle of Dussindale

Dec 7 - Kett tried and executed for treason

Course of Kett’s Rebellion(1549)

East Anglia, Mousehold Heath, 16k, 6

Kett’s rebellion was centred in ____ ______ and rebels gathered at _______ _____. An estimated ___ rebels showed support. The rebellion lasted for around _ weeks.

Warwick, August, Dussindale, 3k, Norwich Castle, national crisis, Somerset, downfall

Kett’s rebellion was crushed by the Earl of ________ in ______ 1549 at the Battle of __________. Roughly ___ rebels were killed and hanged at ______ ______. Other risings in 1549 also created a sense of ______ _____. It exposed the weakness of _________’s government, which contributed to his eventual ________.

Religious change, inflation, enclosure

Causes of the Western Rebellion, 1549

June, 1549

When did the Western Rebellion break out?

mobs attacked in Helston in Cornwall, Somerset and Bristol, the rebels gathered at Credition and advanced past Exeter where they set up camp

Where did the Western rebellion begin?

met by local landowner, who treated them unsympathetically

What happened in Credition during the Western rebellion?

William Body killed by mob who resented his attempt to order removal of traditional Catholic statues and images from local churches

What happened in Helston, Cornwall during the Western Rebellion?

mobs tore down fences and hedges erected to enclose pastureland

What happened in Somerset and Bristol during the Western rebellion?

outside the south-west

Aside from Cornwall, Somerset, and Bristol, where else did spontaneous local riots occur during the Western rebellion?

Gentry families took monastic lands, new Prayer book of 1549, Dissolution of Catholicism in England

What did the religious change that caused the Western rebellion of 1549 include?

Cornwall, Devon

The Western Rebellion grew out of these riots in __________ and _______

no, London, south-west, standstill, underestimated

In the Western Rebellion there was __ attempt to march towards ________ to protest their grievances to the government, instead, the rebels brought the ___________ to a _______ and waited for the government to come to them. News of the rebellion travelled _____ and Somerset almost certainly _____________ the seriousness of the situation at first.

troops need to defend north(Scots+French) and east(kett’s)

Why was it difficult for the government to respond to the western rebellion?