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A Mid-Tudor Crisis? 1536-1558 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Anger from gentry who had lost office within Kent
      - Dismay over Mary's marriage to Philip
      - Wyatt issued a manifesto and his main demand was that Mary should receive “better counsel” – that is, listen to the nobility and gentry’s views
    - - Decline in local cloth industry
    - - Many rebels were from Maidstone, a Protestant stronghold
    - - Decline in local cloth industry
  - - - Shifts in power balances at court – old supporters of Catherine of Aragon losing out
    - - 1536, royal commissioners visited Louth, Lincolnshire and riots started after rumours that all the churches would be closed down
      - Louth Manifesto (October 1536) called for end to dissolution of monasteries (16 of 55 northern monasteries had already been dissolved) and
        restoration of ancient church liberties
      - Anger over passage of the Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries and the Ten Articles
        
        Less charity for poor and homeless
        
        Less celebrations due to ban of many Catholic holy days
        
        Louth had a large monastery with a small number of monks being closed down
        
        Monasteries were places of education
        
        Fear of loss of parish churches as monasteries owned them
      - Pontefract Manifesto (December 1536) had 24 articles. 9 were religious, including restoration of papal authority
      - Four sacraments restored in prayer book as outcome of rebellion
      - 1536 Injunctions
        
        The celebration of locally important saints such as St Wilfrid in parts of
        Yorkshire had been discouraged
        
        Rumours that church plate and jewels, which had been
        bequeathed by parishioners, would be con scated and that parishes might be amalgamated
        
        Discouragement of pilgrimages
    - - Fear of new taxes in time of peace not war, prompted by passage of Cromwell’s Subsidy Act authorising the collection of £80,000
      - Poor harvest in 1535
      - Subsidy dropped as outcome of rebellion
      - Fear north would be impoverished by monastic land falling into hands of southerners
    - - The Crown’s attempts to impose the Duke of Suffolk upon Lincolnshire as a
        great magnate may initially have sparked the rebellion in Lincolnshire.
      - The extension of the rebellion west of the Pennines into Cumberland and Westmorland has been linked in particular to tenants’ grievances
  - - - Demanded improvement of local gov.
      - Anger over local landowners obstructing the commission that assessed the legality of enclosures, due to Somerset's proclamation in 1548
    - - Demanded for improvement of local gov.
    - - Bad harvest
      - Rapid price rises
      - Mistaken belief that gov. ministers were profiteering from the absence of a strong king
      - Rebels wanted to end enclosures
    - - Demanded for dismissal of inadequate and non-resident clergy
  - - - Inflation
      - Population increases
      - Anger over changes in land due to sheep farming: in Somerset and Bristol, mobs tore down fences and hedges used to enclose pastureland
      - Anger over sheep tax: done to deter conversion of arable land to pasture
    - - Concern that gentry families were using former monastic land for their own use
      - Distrust between rural labourers and landowners
    - - Rebels demanded for restoration of Catholic doctrines and practices, including Latin mass and a ban on English Bible
      - Wanted restoration of veneration, images, sacaraments