A-LEVEL MID TUDOR CRISIS summary Edexcel

MID TUDOR CRISIS

1547- VIII DEATH
1547-1553- Edward VI
● Somerset 1547-49
● Northumberland 1549-53
1553-1558- Mary I
1558-1603- Elizabeth I


YES


HENRY VIII
● Poor harvest 1551
● Inflation
● Protestantism adopted, at the end tried to restore catholicism

EDWARD I
● Somerset, war with France and Scotland leads to high spending despite high taxes and
unemployment
● Inflation
● Kett rebellion and Western rebellion in 1549
● Slow response to the rebellions : EFFECTIVENESS OF SOMERSET
● Protestant - ​repeal Six articles
● Loss of boulogne under Northumberland> Treaty of Bolougne 1550
● Lord Protectors = factional rivalry e.g. Commission set under Somerset in 1548 to
investigate enclosure
● Marriage of Mary Q of Scots with Francis ii = TWIN THREAT
● Huge garrison in Scot = strain on treasury

MARY I
● Poor harvest 1555-56
● War leads to high spending
● Inflation
● Dropping wages and cloth trade
● Wyatt rebellion 1554 - to replace Mary with Elizabeth along with the problem with a
foreign king
● Lack of effectual leadership - FEMALE MONARCH dependant on her foreign husband
Philip
● Catholic - ​first (of edward’s reign) and second (since 1529) acts of repeal
● Epidemics
● Loss of calais 1558