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Causes of Wyatt's Rebellion (Socio-economic (Famine/disease (in Kent…
Causes of Wyatt's Rebellion
Religious
Protestant reaction to slow/inadequate Protestant reforms
Protestant reaction to Catholic reforms
Protestants did not want to see catholic restoration
Spain was a very catholic country
Some wanted protestant succession
Lots of protestants in Kent
Produced anti spanish propaganda and some concentrated on catholic nature of spain
Catholic reaction to Protestant reforms
should not be overplayed
Book by John Proctor in 1554 "the Historie of Wyates Rebellion blamed religious factors
BUT this was commissioned by government to divert attention from opposition to marriage
Political reform
Government intervention
Had recently been "shake-up" in office holding
Political instability
younger gentry feared Philip at court might negatively affect their career opportunities
Faction
"Evil" advisors
Dynastic issues and succession
Announcement of Mary's marriage treaty to Philip in January 1554
Rebels did not want Mary to marry a foreigner
Wyatt probably thought that Philip would take control and put the needs of Spain before those of England
evidence of xenophobia in contemporary chronicle "the chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary"
Philip very powerful so how would his time be spread amongst realm
Socio-economic
Class conflict
Taxation
Inflation
Enclosures
Famine/disease
in Kent had been a decline in the cloth industry
people less tolerant of change when economic hardship