Somerset's fall from power
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- Created on: 30-04-16 18:24
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- Somerset's fall from power
- Preoccupied with the war abroad, mounting problems at home
- Government increasingly ineffective
- 1549, England drifted into a potentially major crisis
- Somerset couldn't take decisive action to suppress well supported uprisings in East Anglia and the West Country
- Seen as sympathetic to the plight of poor commons BUT more likely due to the reluctance of the local elites
- Decided by Privy Council to supply additional troops that Lord Russell- West Country and John Dudley (Earl of Warwick)- East Anglia, could defeat the rebels
- Lack of money, meant he could not raise a mercenary army
- Reluctant to withdraw troops from his garrisons in Scotland and France
- Somerset couldn't take decisive action to suppress well supported uprisings in East Anglia and the West Country
- Seen as sympathetic to the plight of poor commons BUT more likely due to the reluctance of the local elites
- Decided by Privy Council to supply additional troops that Lord Russell- West Country and John Dudley (Earl of Warwick)- East Anglia, could defeat the rebels
- Executed January 1552
- Detained by John Dudley after success in Norfolk, in October 1549- no opposition
- Released, joined the Privy Council, but accused of plotting against the government
- Executed January 1552
- Detained by John Dudley after success in Norfolk, in October 1549- no opposition
- Released, joined the Privy Council, but accused of plotting against the government
- Released, joined the Privy Council, but accused of plotting against the government
- Detained by John Dudley after success in Norfolk, in October 1549- no opposition
- Executed January 1552
- Released, joined the Privy Council, but accused of plotting against the government
- Detained by John Dudley after success in Norfolk, in October 1549- no opposition
- Preoccupied with the war abroad, mounting problems at home
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