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| Question | Answer |
| French sent army to Scotland in what year defeating rebels at St Andrew (under Somerset) | July 1547 |
| Somerset's response to French sending an army to Scotland in July 1547 | Organised army of 18,000 and a fleet of 60 ships under Edward Lord Clinton and marched across the border on the 4th of September 1547 |
| When did the new French army arrive and England forced onto the defensive | May 1548 |
| When did Mary Queen of Scots leave to marry the French Dauphin (later Francis II) | July 1548 |
| What did Mary Queen of Scot's marriage to the French Dauphin mean for English control of Boulogne | It became untenable |
| Peace that surrendered Boulogne and left France in a dominating position in Scotland | January 1550 |
| How much did the war cost under Somerset between England and France | £300,000 + the debasement of he coinage continued |
| What Parliament under Somerset repealed the laws against heresy | The Parliament of 1547 |
| What else did the Parliament of 1547 repeal regarding religious policy | The Act of Six Articles passed during Henry VIII's reactionary years |
| Which Act condemned all Chantries | Act of 1545 |
| What are chantries | Priests funded to say masses for the souls of the dead |
| What did Somerset do to progress his Act of 1545 condemning all Chantries | Moved to have this ratified and to seize their endowments in 1547 |
| What acts were passed in 1549 | Allowing priests to marry and ordering that the laity should receive both bread and wine at communion |
| How did Somerset move over ceremonial changes | More slowly, but did introduce a new English Prayer Book |
| Price of food increased steeply when while what barely increased | In 1540s and wages barely increased |
| In real terms how much did wages decline by | 1/2 |
| Two main causes of price inflation | Increasing population and the great debasement |
| The value of English currency abroad ...., but ...... remained stagnant | The value of English currency abroad FELL but CLOTH EXPORTS remained stagnant |
| A mass of wage earners and all those on fixed incomes fared how to these conditions | THEY SUFFERED SEVERELY |
| Social unrest heightened by two main things with what being blamed for inflation | Hunger / poverty with many blaming enclosure of land for inflation |
| Somerset tried to persuade Parliament to | Take steps against enclosure but to no avail |
| Serious popular unrest from Spring of 1549 onwards = result of 3 main factors | Anger at enclosures / poor harvests / spread of plague |
| Rebellion broke out in Devon and Cornwall in | 1549 (the Western Rebellion) |
| What did the Cornish-speaking populace resent | the English liturgy that the new Prayer Book put in place of the familiar Latin service |
| Who were they joined by | conservative clerics and some local gentlemen. |
| The rebels laid siege to where / when until dispersed by an army of what troops when | The rebels laid siege to Exeter (10 June) until dispersed by an army of Italian and German mercenary troops in August. |
| When did the Kett rebellion start | July 1549 |
| Norfolk rebels were what religion and what was their main grievance based around | The Norfolk rebels were Protestants and their main grievances were economic. |
| Who was their leader and why | Robert Kett (Kett Rebellion) a local landowner became the rebels' leader when he cooperated in the tearing down of his own fences as well as others that had enclosed common land |
| What was his staring point and how many men was he able to rally up | From his starting point in Wymondham, he was able to rally 12,000 men |
| Where did Kett's forces camp and what was their initial progress | Kett's forces camped on Mousehold Heath outside Norwich, captured the city and repulsed the initial attacks of government forces |
| Who forced the rebels out of Norwich and routed the rebels nearby at Dussindale AND WHEN | In August, John Dudley, Earl of Warwick forced the rebels out of Norwich and routed the rebels nearby at Dussindale. |
| How many rebel soldiers were killed or executed | Almost 3,000 rebel soldiers were killed and fifty more were executed afterwards |
| Which Privy Councillors were working for Somerset's overthrow | John Dudley, Earl of Warwick and Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton |
| Who wanted Somerset stripped of power | Both factions - the conservative Catholic supporters of Mary, and the Protestant reformers now led by Warwick - |
| When was he re-arrested and executed and by who on what grounds | He was re-arrested in October 1551 on flimsy charges of conspiracy, because Northumberland feared that he was trying to organize a counter-coup. He was executed January 1552. |
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