Somerset
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- Somerset (Edward Seymour)
- Background
- Difficult inheritance
- Country divided on religious grounds
- Crown finances ruined- Scotland and France
- Debased coinage = inflation
- Sold monastic lands = compromised long term security
- Henry VII
- Regency council in will
- Balanced = Protestants and conservatives
- Several admin and lawyers
- Promptly delegated power to Somerset = lord prtoector
- Regency council in will
- Gov fearful of good order
- 1547 = Homily on obedience
- Disobedience= mortal sin
- Difficult inheritance
- Role in gov
- Rewarded himself and others with promotions and grants of crown lands
- within weeks awarded himself control
- members of own household
- Appointment of supporters to privy
- Resentment
- Southampton arrested
- Widespread fear of breakdown of law and order
- Resentment
- Policy failings
- Foreign
- Scotland
- Rebelions
- mishandled
- Gave biggest opposition = Earl of Warwick opportunity
- Foreign
- Factional rivalries
- Thomas Seymour
- Turn Edward against him
- Plot with Southapton
- Treason charges
- Denounced = readmission
- Thomas Seymour
- Downfall August -October 1547
- Warwick and Southampton
- Tried secure princess Mary's support
- steer clear
- October = ready to strike
- Stand-off
- Retreated with king to Windsor
- Promised no treason charges = surrendered
- Tried secure princess Mary's support
- Warwick and Southampton
- Religious
- Changes
- PROTESTANTISM
- Cautious
- 1549 = Book of common prayer
- Avoid increase in tension
- Establish single form for services
- Translate to English
- Simplicty
- 1549 = Book of common prayer
- Radical
- 1547
- Denunciation of images in London
- Iconoclasim (breaking of iages)
- Radical attitudes of churchmen
- destroyed eans of connecting with dead
- Injuctions
- Radical attitudes of gov
- Attacked popular catholisim
- Dissolution of chantries
- Needed monet for foreign
- Further attack
- Guilds
- confiscate money and property for events
- Denunciation of images in London
- 1547
- Impact
- Highly signif social
- sustained attack on religious experience
- Renewed plundering of resources
- 1549 = Rebellion
- Highly signif social
- Changes
- Economic
- Changes
- Continued debasing coinage
- Scotland
- heightened inflatationary issues
- Added to social distress
- 1548 = Poor harvest
- Enclosure
- Commission to investigate
- Little achieved
- Raised hopes
- Already slowing
- Commission to investigate
- Taxation
- Great discontent
- Scotland
- Increasing enclosure = profit from grazing large flocks of sheep
- Wool and cloth for export market
- Tax on sheep = deter
- Huge financial pressure on small farmers in upland areas
- Continued debasing coinage
- Impact
- 1549 = Rebellion
- Changes
- Background
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