Causes of the 1536 rebellions
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- Causes of the 1536 rebellions
- Religious causes
- Dissolution of the Monastries
- General direction of Henry's policies (reformers Cromwell and Cranmer leading them)
- Alternation of practice
- Rebels carried 'Five Wounds of Christ'
- Termed 'Pilgrimage' - religious motivation
- Pontefract articles - 9 out of 24 of their grievances were religious
- Socio-Economic Causes
- Government demands for taxation in the 1534 subsidy
- Subsidy hit the North hard - North had been suffering two years of bad weather and poor harvests
- Enclosure
- Government demands for taxation in the 1534 subsidy
- Political Causes
- Sir Thomas Percy, Lord Hussey and Lord Darcy involved
- Wanted the removal of Cromwell
- Historian Geoffrey Elton argued that it was actually a 'court-based plot' designed to restore Princess Mary to the royal succession and to remove Cromwell
- Religious causes
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