1549 YEAR OF MANY HEADED MONSTER

RELIGIOUS

• Didnt understand the english bible
• Hated the new prayer book
• Images restored to churches
• Services in latin
• Prayers for the dead
• FULL CATHOLISICM returned to england 

SOCIAL/ ECONOMIC 

• Poverty
• Rise of inflation
• Upset at gentry benefiting from sale of church land in 1530s
• Falling cloth prices 

Religion main cause, no aristocratic family in area to put down the rebellion

EVENTS

• Use of new hated prayer book by priest caused people to rebel 
• Arundell led protestors in Bodmin and issued a list of articles 
• Attemots by gentry to put down devon and cornwell rebels failed 
• Somerset's government tried to find a settlement by using Lord Russel, a catholic council member with a small army, took russel a month to put down the rebels 

RESULTS 

• 4000 rebels killed, welsh- the leader of the rebellion was hanged without trial
• economic situaton worsened
• government suspended for 2 months
• somerset's authority questioned

ECONOMIC+SOCIAL

• poverty
• hatred of enclosures
• poor harvests
• bad local government had causedtrouble between landlords and ordinary people
• high unemployment due to collapse of cloth industry

RELIGIOUS
don't want to return to catholicism just want better trained clergy able to preform thier duties

LOCAL

• perosnal differences between 2 local men flowerdew and kett
• no person strong enough to locally put down rebellion
• grievances against local councillors not king

EVENTS

• Robert Kett lead mob after his enclosure was attacked by them
• They camped outside norwhich and thre
• atened to take the city 
• Royal Herals was sent to offer a pardon- this was rejected 
• Kett had 16000 followers and captured Norwhich 
• government sent 12000 troops under the duke of northumberland to put down the rebellion 
• Northumberland attacked within three days - 3000 rebels killed Kett arrested 

RESULTS

• Kett executed
• Edward throne not threatened like western 
• Somerset overthrown by councillor's he was blamed for rebellions inadequate response to them 

• other rebellions mesnt lack of resources
• took over a month to put down
• negotiation needed to stop it
• multi-causal potential to become bigger
• somerset's negotitaitons failed at the start 

• Gentry helped to stop it
• only 6000 involved compared to 30000 in POG
• religious rebellion- no rebellion against throne
• not a surprise as a lot of western countries rebel

• took capital  
• mercianeries involved
• limited resources due to other rebellions
• captured norwhich, 2nd biggest city
• took 2 attempts to put down the city

• took 3 days on second attempt
• loyal to edward
• edward's throne not threatened