Unit 3 - The State and the People: Change and Continuity
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Flagship History - England 1485-1603
This document entails a detailed summary and comparison of all tudor rebellions, providing you with key information that you may need to know for your exam, such as how easily the rebellions were dealt with by the monarch/government etc, or whether they were economic/social or religious caused.
Unit 3 - The State and the People: Change and Continuity
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Comparing Tudor Rebellions
Main causes (consider carefully the Main events (what happened) What were the How serious was this for
extent to which each rebellion is consequences? the monarch?
motivated by religious / social /
economic / political grievances)
Yorkshire Rebellion (Economic caused rebellion) The King’s representative, the Earl of Henry had to abolish the Was a threat:
1489 In 1489, Henry was intending to assist Northumberland was murdered while tax as he feared it would The rebellion showed that
Brittany against the French and trying to collect the tax. continue to raise Henry hadn't secured his
Parliament had granted him a subsidy Leader of rebels - Sir John Egremont opposition - only £27,000 authority because his
to allow him to raise troops to do so. was an illegitimate member of the was raised. people murdered an Earl
This tax was resented - people were Percy family and a sympathiser with He also appointed the Earl who was on the King's
facing more realistic charges on their the Yorkist cause. of Surrey as his new orders.
income. Henry sent a large army north to deal lieutenant in the North - Pendrill claims that ‘the
People in Yorkshire particularly with the revolt - but by the time they this made good sense as Northern Rebellion of 1489
resented the tax. reached York, the rebels had largely Surrey had no estates or indicated again that the
melted away, probably frightened by interests there and was King’s control of the
the King’s reaction. able to spend many years kingdom was far from
The Earl of Surrey easily defeated reconciling the region to secure’.
what remained of the rebels and a Tudor rule. Henry wasn't able to
royal pardon was granted but no more collect the full amount of
tax was collected. tax and didn't attempt to
raise tax again from
Northumberland and
Yorkshire.
This showed that Henry
easily appeases the rebels
because they got what
they wanted.
Henry felt threatened
enough to plan to ride to
the North himself for
another progress to make
his authority stronger.
Wasn’t a threat:
This rebellion wasn't
actually against the King
himself, it was against a
tax raise. This arguably
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