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Causes of Tudor Rebellions: The Western Rebellions (Socio-economic…
Causes of Tudor Rebellions: The Western Rebellions
Political
Dynastic Issues and Succession
"Evil" advisors
Faction
Government intervention
Didn't like William Boyd - commissioner who investigated church property in 1547
Rumours about confiscation of church goods
1548: William Boyd destroyed church images
Group in Helston, Devon tried to murder
Gentry dealt with it but antagonism remained
Socio-economic
Class conflict
Devon + Cornwall common people most hostile towards gentry in country
"Kill the gentlemen and we shall have the Six Articles up again and ceremonies as they were in King Henry VIII's time"
Taxation
1497 Henry VII's tax request lead to rebellion
3,000 joined Peter Warbeck's attempt to claim the throne later that year
Taxes on sheep and cloth
created rumours of tax on other animals
Famine/disease
relied heavily on small profit made by tin mining = poverty
Complaints of food prices in first list of demands
By 1547 the cost of food was 45% higher than in 1540, fell in 1548 a bit but grew by 10% in 1549
Enclosures
Inflation
Religious
Catholic reaction to Protestant reforms
Cornwall and Devon conservative in social and religious matters
Introduction of ne Prayer Book 10 June 1549
Sampford, Devon = people provoked by priest's use of new Prayer Book
List of Articles demanded reintroduction of Catholicism
REINSTATEMENT OF
Act of Six articles
Use of latin communion in one kind
prayers for the dead
Mass every Sunday
First list of demands was dominated by economic greivances
clergy led by Robert Welsh hijacked control of movement and second articles
Geographically and politically distant from London
Very few protestants in Cornwall
Protestant reaction to Cathlic reforms
Protestant reaction to slow/inadequate protestant reforms