OCR A Level History A ( Y103/01) England Question paper June 2025

OCR A Level History A ( Y103/01) England Question paper June 2025 'King John did not suffer from the impact of the Interdict and his excommunication'. Use the four sources in their historical context to assess how far they support this view. Source A: A monk of St Alban's describes John's reaction to the imposition of the Interdict in 1208. [30] The king of England, being greatly enraged on account of the Interdict, sent his sheriffs to all quarters of England, giving orders with dreadful threats to all priests as well as to those subject to them, to depart from the kingdom immediately and to demand justice for him from the pope. He also gave all the bishoprics, abbacies and priories into the charge of laymen and ordered all ecclesiastical revenues to be confiscated. But most of the abbots refused to quit their monasteries unless expelled by violence. When the agents of the king found this out, they would not use violence, because they did not have a warrant from the king to that effect. But they converted all monastic property to the king's use, giving the monks only a scanty allowance of food and clothing out of their own property.