Rebellions under Edward VI
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- Rebellions under Edward VI
- Western (Prayer Book) Rebellion 1549
- Route Cause: Religious change - the introduction of the First Book of Common Prayer 1549; many rebels wanted to reverse all reforms.
- Other Causes: resentment over the gentry gaining monastic land; inflation; enclosure; Sheep Tax 1549.
- Threat?
- Somerset underestimated the seriousness of the rebellion.
- Gov. troops were stationed in the north to defend against Scotland and along the coast in case of a French Invasion.
- Coincided with the Kett Rebellion.
- Lord Russell led the Royal forces and defeated the rebels at Clyst Hill near Exeter - he relied on foreign mercenaries to do so.
- Kett Rebellion 1549
- Causes: bad harvests; inflation; resentment of local landowners; enclosure; pluralism and inadequate clergy (wanted reformist clergymen).
- Threat?
- Didn't march to London; set up camps with the largest being near Norwich.
- 15,000 men.
- Somerset sent the Earl of Northampton to recapture Norwich once the rebels captured it yet he failed in a humiliating defeat.
- Earl of Warwick (John Dudley) set out to meet the rebels and defeated them.
- Resulted in 4,000 dead and no changes to Government or enclosure.
- Revealed a huge weakness in Government and gave Somerset's critics an opportunity to strike (leading him to be replaced by the Duke of Northumberland).
- Robert Kett (landowner) was attacked and agreed to end enclosure on his property.
- Western (Prayer Book) Rebellion 1549
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