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To what extent did English Government respond effectively to the domestic…

- - - - Introduced in March 1549. Intended to deter the conversion of arable land to pasture, which was often accompanied by the enclosure and driving out of the poor; while its application might have made some social sense in, for example, the east Midlands, it proved a significiant burden on hill farmers who struggled to make a living from sheep farming on marginal highlands such as Exmoor and Dartmoor.
    - - 28th July - Lord Russell began his advance on the rebels
        
        Lord Russell was a rising nobleman with estates in the West Country. Eventually Russell had enough
      - 4th August - Rebels defeated at Clyst Heath
      - 17th August - Final defeat of rebels at Sampford Courtenay
  - - - 1st August - Failure of Earl of Northampton to recapture Norwich
      - 27th August Rebels finally defeated by forces led by the Earl of Northumberland
    - - Norfolk Foldcourse: A foldcourse is the right to graze sheep on an enclosed piece of common land. In Norfolk many of these rights were held by peasents but problems were caused by landowners denying access to the foldcourse
        
        What the rebels wanted was the government to act on the promises of reform which had been made by Somerset in his proclamation against enclosures in April.
        
        This denial increased levels if peasant discontent and contributed to the outbreak of rebellion
- - - - The preamble to the Act declared that the monarch possessed an imperial jurisdiction which was not subject to any foreign power (i.e. the papacy). The act decleared that appeals could not be made to Rome regarding court descisions 'in causes matrimonial' and other areas. Meaning, catherine couldn't appeal to Rome against her marriage annulment
  - - - Gave legislative force to the royal supremacy. It stated that the kings maggoty justly and rightfully is and oweth to the Supreme Head of the Church of England. This act effectively established a break from Rome.
        
        This legally showed the country that Henry meant business and the country had moved to Protestantism.
  - - - Henrys marriage to Catherine was void
      - The succession should be vested in the children of his marriage to Anne
      - To deny the validity of Henry's marriage to Anne was treason
      - An oath should be taken up to affirm an individuals acceptance of the new marriage
  - - - Tightened so that treason could be committed by the spoken word as well as by deed or writing so that it was treasonable to describe the king as 'heretic, schismatic, tyrant, infidel or usurper of the Crown'
- - - - 3rd Dec - Royal proclamation offering pardon to rebels
      - 16th Jan - Renewed rebellion in the East Riding of Yorkshire let by Sir Francis Bigod
      - 26th October - Rebels meet Duke of Norfolk near Doncaster East and West Riding
      - Led to the widening of the dissolution as the heads of the religious houses that had been implemented in the rebellion voluntarily surrendered to the crown
- - - - Lots of Urban poverty - over half the population of Coventry were regarded as having no personal wealth