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1
Q

where

A

in the northern counties

2
Q

time

A

8 Oct - Feb 1537

3
Q

leader

A

Robert Aske, lawyer

commons

no noble leaders

4
Q

rebel army

A

far larger than the King’s so he had to play for time and send the Duke of Norfolk to negotiate

5
Q

Henry

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offered general pardons to all involved

a parliament to discuss the issues

6
Q

causes

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religion: fear of dissolution of the monasteries
taxes: Cromwell’s subsidy act of £80,000

7
Q

subsidiary causes

A

poor harvest the previous year

8
Q

degree of threat

A

high

50,000 rebels across northern England

but no intention to overthrow the king, loyal

9
Q

outcomes

A

general pardons promised

subsidy dropped

pro catholic outcome

second wave of rebels treated more harshly

10
Q

24 articles

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3 economic- end enclosure

6 legal- parliament in the north

6 political- remove Cromwell and Cranmer and restore Mary to the succession

9 religious- restoration of papal authority

11
Q

success

A

Henry had to start paying attention to the north

12
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failure

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the rebels failed to take advantage of the numbers of general sympathy to the cause

13
Q

G. Elton

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(factional)

argues that the Lincolnshire rebels had links to landowners who were part of the Aragonese faction

14
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J. J Scarisbrick

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(religious)

demands mostly religious

15
Q

why was it a threat

A

had offer of foreign help for the Pilgrims

took the regional capital of York

16
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the north felt

A

excluded from the growing centralization and therefore in the Pilgrimage demanded a parliament up north