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Y306: Rebellion and Disorder Under the Tudors 1485–1603

Depth study: The Western Rebellion — demands, defeat and significance

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  • Unit group 3

Overview

Recall questions on the western rebels’ articles and social resentment, their numbers and leaders, Exeter, the government’s response, the rebels’ defeat and punishment, why the rising failed and how historians judge it.

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Who and when

Who led the Western Rebellion?

Key term

Name three demands in the western rebels' articles.

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    Name three demands in the western rebels' articles.

    Model answer

    The restoration of the Six Articles, the return of the Latin Mass with communion in one kind, and the recall of Cardinal Pole from exile to the King's Council.

  2. 2

    Which of the western rebels' articles shows social resentment of the gentry?

    Model answer

    The demand that no gentleman should keep more than one servant for every hundred marks of land he held, which was aimed at breaking the gentry's local power.

  3. 3

    How large was the western rebel force?

    Model answer

    At its height the rebel army numbered around six to seven thousand men.

  4. 4

    Who led the Western Rebellion?

    Model answer

    The chief leader was Humphry Arundell, a Cornish gentleman with military experience, supported by other gentlemen such as John Winslade and by priests, notably Robert Welsh, the vicar of St Thomas outside Exeter.

  5. 5

    What happened at Exeter during the Western Rebellion?

    Model answer

    The rebels besieged the city for about five weeks from early July, but its governors kept it loyal despite hunger, and it held out until relief arrived at the start of August.

  6. 6

    How did the government respond to the Western Rebellion?

    Model answer

    Somerset, distracted by war with Scotland and by Kett's rising in Norfolk, sent Lord Russell west with a small and hesitant force, which had to wait at Honiton until it was reinforced by German and Italian mercenaries and by troops under Lord Grey and William Herbert.

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