WHAT WAS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CAUSES OF KETT'S REBELLION?

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  • What socio-economic problems did enclosure create in mid-Tudor society?
    • Poverty/vagrancy
      • Enclosed common lands - relied on most by poorest
        • Common grazing -> manure for village crops
      • Copyhold tenants most at risk(leases most challenged)
    • Increase in Sheep-farming
      • Required little man power(led to unemployment)
      • Created large-scale entreprises
        • Sir William Fermour of Norfolk
      • Created large profits
    • Encouraged engrossing/rack-renting/ entry fines
    • Encouraged disparate levels of poverty in the localities (engrossing more likely in East Anglia -> poverty)
    • tensions between Gentry/commons

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