Causes of the Pilgrimage of Grace
Political causes = Yellow
Economic/Financial causes = Green
Relgious causes= Red
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- Created on: 15-03-16 15:46
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- Causes of the Pilgrimage of Grace
- Food shortages & Agrarian issues
- High food prices because of bad harvests in 1535 & 1536
- Other agricultural issues
- E.g. renewal of tenancies, border tenures, enclosures & rack renting
- Opposition to Cromwell's policies
- 3/24 Pontefract articles opposed Cromwell & Riche
- 8. Lord Cromwell, the Lord Chancellor, and Sir Ric. Riche to have condign punishment, as subverters of the good laws of the realm and maintainers and inventors of heretics.
- Cromwell viewed as a heretic
- 3/24 Pontefract articles opposed Cromwell & Riche
- Taxation
- The Act of First Fruits & Tenths meant that Henry took a much larger amount of clerical wealth than the Pope ever had
- Gentry opposed the Statue of Uses
- Rebels opposed Cromwell's policies of taking tax during peacetime in the 1534 Subsidy Act
- Great Chain of Being
- Upset about the changes to the natural hierarchy
- Didn't want blurring of social lines
- E.g. Gentry becoming Priests
- Aristocratic Feud
- Elton argues that it was a way for frustrated nobility to increase their power and influence at court
- When the Pontefract Articles were drawn up the gentry has to explain what the Statue of Uses (1535) was
- Lord Hussey & Lord Darcy played key roles
- Hussey was a member of the Aragonese faction
- Noblemen were angry at the positions of Cromwell because of his low status
- Religious Changes
- 11/24 of the Pontefract Articles related to religion
- C.S.L. Davies argues that religious factors "served to give the moment cohesion" and to bind together different classes" and "legitimising resistance to the King."
- Guy argues that true religion was the "most important rebel platform."
- Wanted the monasteries restored
- Richard Aske said that the "greatest cause" of the rebellion
- Richard Aske made the rebellion a Pilgrimage
- Made rebels take the Pilgrim Oath
- Pilgrims wore a badge with the Five Wounds of Christ on
- Food shortages & Agrarian issues
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