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BACKLASH TO THE REFORMATION - Coggle Diagram
BACKLASH TO THE REFORMATION
PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE
CAUSES
POLITICAL
Cromwell = lowborn and overmighty
govt interference in local affairs
Anne Boleyn not true queen
RELIGIOUS
wanted pilgrimage back
attack on Traditionalists' faith
wanted to go back to 1529
ECONOMIC
1535 poor harvest
SIGNIFICANCE
delayed 1539 Dissolution
joint force of peasants and gentry
only large rising in HVIII reign
OPPOSITION AT COURT
Aragonese faction supported the POG
OPPOSITION IN THE CLERGY
Thomas More refused the supremacy - executed 1535
18 Carthusian monks executed for refusing the supremacy
CONCLUSIONS
Given the scale and drastic nature of the Henrician Reformation, the level of backlash was relatively low and manageable - by making the changes 'legal', Cromwell managed to maintain a semblance of normality