HIH3502 Year-2011/2012

Popular Rebellion in England 1381-1549

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Website  British History Online contains digitised reference books and collections of documents. The Letters and Papers of Henry VIII are available here, and are essential for studying the rebellions of 1536.

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Webpage  EThOS allows you to access digital copies of unpublished PhD theses, such as the ones by Aubrey Greenwood and Amanda Jones which are listed on the reading list below.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Webpage  By all means use Wikipedia to find out basic details about events or individuals but never, never, never use it as your only source. You should try and avoid referencing Wikipedia in footnotes and bibliographies: it makes it look as if you could not find anything better, and you should be able to.

Manifesto of the Communist Party - Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich 1952

Book  See also Rodney Hilton et al. The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism (Verso, 1978).[Marx and Engels’ famous statement that all history is the history of class struggles; the book by Hilton et al. shows the issues raised by applying Marxist models to late medieval history.]

The anatomy of popular rebellion in the Middle Ages - Fourquin, Guy, Chesters, Anne 19780444850066

Book  A comparative history of late medieval revolts that argues it is wrong to use the term ‘class’ to describe periods before the nineteenth century

Rebels and rulers, 1500-1660: Vol. 1: Society, states and early modern revolution, agrarian and urban rebellions - Zagorin, Perez 19820521244722,0521244730,0521287111,052128712X

Book  A comparative history of rebellions, that considers the common features and provides a useful survey of theories and contexts of revolt in parts 1 and 2

Revolt and revolution in early modern Europe: an essay on the history of political violence - Bercé, Yves-Marie 19870719019672

Book  Another comparative history of rebellion drawing out the common features such as petitioning, desire to return to a ‘golden age’, but also political objectives and types of leaders – see particularly chapters 1-3

Popular culture and popular protest in late medieval and early modern Europe - Mullett, Michael A. 19870709935668

Book  Yet another comparative history, this one covering the whole period considered in the course. Argues that rebellions were revisionist rather than revolutionary in their aims.

Pre-industrial societies - Crone, Patricia 19890631156615,0631156623

Book  An eccentric but thought provoking book – again argues that the idea of economic class has little relevance for pre-industrial societies.

Domination and the arts of resistance: hidden transcripts - Scott, James C. 1990 (electronic resource)

Book  eBook An outstanding book on how oppressed and supposedly powerless people resist domination by those with power: you must read this

Domination and the arts of resistance: hidden transcripts - Scott, James C. 19900300047053,0300056699,9780300047059

Book  An outstanding book on how oppressed and supposedly powerless people resist domination by those with power: you must read this

‘The risings of the commons in England, 1381-1549’ [in] Orders and hierarchies in late medieval Renaissance Europe - M.L. Bush

Chapter  Some essential background covering all the revolts in the course, looking at tradition of revolt, society of orders, corrective devices in the political system, and popular perceptions of the social hierarchy.

The agrarian history of England and Wales: Vol.3: 1348-1500 - Miller, Edward, Thirsk, Joan 19910521200741

Book  A survey of peasant rebellion and more minor riots and revolts in the late medieval period, covers 1381 and Cade with particular emphasis on the rural context.

Tudor rebellions - Fletcher, Anthony, MacCulloch, Diarmaid 2008 (electronic resource)

Book  Brief outlines and documents for 1536 and 1549 eBook and Book Other editions available

A rural society after the Black Death: Essex, 1350-1525 - Poos, Lawrence R. 19910521382602

Book  A detailed study of social structure in Essex, one of the hotspots of revolt, includes a chapter on 1381 and 1450

Literature and complaint in England 1272-1553 - Scase, Wendy 20070199270856,9780199270859

Book  looks at the tradition of writing complaints about the government, including petitions in rebellions, particularly good in Cade’s Rebellion

‘Popular disorder in southern England, 1250-1450’ [in] Conflict and community in southern England: essays in the social history of rural and urban labour from medieval to modern times - D.G. Watts,

Chapter  Looks at events in Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Som., Devon and Cornw., compares 1381 and 1450, notes the bias of the chronicles to the south-east of England

‘Public or plebs: The changing meaning of ‘the commons’, 1381-1549’ [in] Power and identity in the Middle Ages: essays in memory of Rees Davies - John Watts

Chapter  does what it says

‘Peasant politics and class consciousness: the Norfolk rebellions of 1381 and 1549 compared’ [in] Rodney Hilton's Middle Ages: an exploration of historical themes - Jane Whittle

Article  A close comparison of events in Norfolk in 1381 (using data from Eiden’s article) and 1549, examining the remarkable similarity of events, but also differing motivations.

‘Collective violence, social drama and rituals of rebellion in late medieval and early modern England’ [in] Cultures of violence: interpersonal violence in historical perspective - Andy Wood

Chapter  Does what it says, but quite a brief survey

Pathfinders - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto September 20060199295905,9780199295906

Book  Not currently available

London in the later Middle Ages: government and people, 1200-1500 - Barron, Caroline M. 20030199257779

Book  London played an important role in the rebellions of 1381 and 1450. Barron provides an excellent up to date history

Standards of living in the later Middle Ages: social change in England c.1200-1520 - Dyer, Christopher 19890521251273,0521272157

Book  Still one of the best introductions to how people (the aristocracy, peasants and towndwellers) lived during this period.

Making a living in the Middle Ages: the people of Britain, 850-1520 - Dyer, Christopher 20030140259511

Book  Yale U.P. 2002, but also published by Penguin as a paperback) [Part III covers the period c.1350-c.1520 and provides an excellent introduction, with a short chapter on revolts

An age of transition?: economy and society in England in the later Middle Ages - Dyer, Christopher 20050198221665

Book  a series of lectures focusing of the period from c.1270-c.1520 by one of the leading experts: a good read, but perhaps not such a good introduction as his other two books listed here.

Images of the medieval peasant - Freedman, Paul H. 19990804733724,0804733732

Book  A study of how peasants were represented in the literature of medieval Europe, particularly the reasoning behind serfdom, with a chapter on peasant rebellions in the late middle ages

Peasants and landlords in later medieval England: c.1380-c.1525 - Fryde, E. B. 19960750922559,0862998662

Book  Includes useful chapters on the social and economic background to the Peasants’ Revolt, and on the economic depression of the mid fifteenth century which formed the background to Cade’s Rebellion

Historical writing in England: 2: c.1307 to the early sixteenth century - Gransden, Antonia 1982071000480X,0801412641

Book  Discusses all the main chronicle sources for 1381 and 1450

A social history of England, 1200-1500 - Horrox, Rosemary, Ormrod, W. M. 20060521783453,0521789540,9780521783453,9780521789547

Book  A collection of survey chapters by different experts on topics such as war, law, social mobility and town life

English society in the Later Middle Ages, 1348-1500 - Keen, Maurice Hugh, American Council of Learned Societies 1990

Book  eBook and Book. Another good introduction with more on the gentry, clergy, and politics (including a table of political events) than books such as Dyer’s. Structured around the three main ‘orders’ of medieval society

English society in the later Middle Ages: class, status and gender - Rigby, Stephen Henry 19950333492390,0333492404

Book  A detailed analysis of medieval social structure combined with some serious social theory: stimulating and useful

A companion to Britain in the later Middle Ages - Rigby, Stephen Henry 20030631217851

Book  A large survey volume with chapters on topics such as the economy, politics, law each written by experts in the field

The theory and practice of revolt in medieval England - Valente, Claire 20030754609014

Book  Not as useful as it sounds, is this is mostly about aristocratic challenges to the crown rather than popular rebellion, but does provide useful context about theories of revolt and the political instability of the period

Bond men made free: medieval peasant movements and the English rising of 1381 - Hilton, R. H. 2005 (electronic resource)

Book  eBook, Book and other edition. Reprint of 1973 volume with new introduction. Narrative of the revolt but also plenty of background material

Bond men made free: medieval peasant movements and the English rising of 1381 - Hilton, R. H. 20030415316146

Book  eBook, Book and other edition. Reprint of 1973 volume with new introduction. Narrative of the revolt but also plenty of background material

The English rising of 1381 - Hilton, R.H., Aston, T. H. 19840521267439

Book  The best set of essays on the revolt – all the essays are interesting and some essential e.g. Dyer on social and economic background; Butcher on urban revolt; Dobson on the revolt in Yorkshire; Harding on hostility to justices; and Tuck on nobles’ reaction to rebellion.

The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 - Dobson, R. B., American Council of Learned Societies 1970

Book  eBook and Book. A collection of primary documents with an excellent introduction and glosses on each piece of evidence

The great rising of 1381: the peasants' revolt and England's failed revolution - Dunn, Alasdair 20020752423231

Book  A basic narrative with map, illustrations, chronology (which has mistakes in it) and up to date bibliography

The Great Revolt of 1381 - Fryde, E.B. 1981085278239X

Book  A good short introduction

The Great Revolt of 1381 - Oman, Charles William Chadwick 1969

Book  Old but generally quite sound

‘Reading Piers Plowman: literature, history and criticism’ [in] Literature and history - David Aers 1990

Article  Another study (there are many but Aers is particularly good, of the connection between Langland’s Piers Plowman and the rebels’ letters – see also the book by Justice

‘Corpus Christi and corpus regni: heresy and the Peasants’ Revolt’ Past and present: a journal of historical studies - Margaret Aston

Article  Essential article on the religious background to the revolt

‘The organization and achievements of the peasants of Kent and Essex in 1381’ [in] Studies in medieval history: presented to R.H.C. Davis - Nicholas Brooks

Chapter  An essential article on the details of events in Kent and Essex, particularly good on peasant organisation

pp198-204 [in] The pursuit of the millennium: revolutionary millenarians and mystical anarchists of the Middle Ages

Chapter  The evidence of the millenarian beliefs in the Peasants’ Revolt, in its wider context

‘The rising of 1381 in Suffolk: its origins and participants’ [in] Everyday life in medieval England

Chapter  A detailed study of the background of various Suffolk rebels

‘Joint action against “bad” lordship: the peasants’ revolt in Essex and Norfolk’ [in] History: the journal of the Historical Association - Herbert Eiden

Article  A detailed study of events, actions, and types of rebels in Essex and Norfolk

‘Norfolk 1382: a sequel to the Peasants’ Revolt’ [in] The English historical review - Herbert Eiden 1999

Article  The aftermath and resurgence of rebellion in Norfolk

‘The class struggle in 14th century England’ [in] People's history and socialist theory - Rosamond Faith

Chapter  A detailed analysis of events in St Albans

‘The imaginary society: women in 1381’ [in] Journal of British studies - Sylvia Federico 2001

Article  The involvement of women in the rebellion

‘Popular movements in England at the end of the fourteenth century’ Class conflict and the crisis of feudalism: essays in medieval social history

Chapter  A short recap of many of Hilton’s basic views on the revolt

Writing and rebellion: England in 1381 - Justice, Steven, American Council of Learned Societies 1994

Book  An excellent study of the rebel letters and their literary background and significance

‘The Peasants Revolt and the government of England’ [in] Journal of British studies - W. Mark Ormrod 1990

Article  Does what it says

‘In bed with Joan of Kent: the king’s mother and the Peasants’ Revolt’ [in] Medieval women: texts and contexts in late Medieval Britain : essays for Felicity Riddy

Article  Examining the symbolism of a reputed incident in the rebellion and its symbolism

The Rising in East Anglia in 1381 - Edgar Powell 1896

Book  Not currently in stock. Old, but still useful account of the rebellion in eastern England

Writing about rebellion: using the records of the Peasants' revolt of 1381 - A Prescott 1998-03-01

Article  An excellent article on using legal records to reconstruct the rebellion

‘ “The hand of God”: the suppression of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381’ [in] Prophecy, apocalypse and the day of doom: proceedings of the 2000 Harlaxton Symposium - Andrew Prescott

Chapter  Study of events after the rebellion: how it was put down

‘The hundred of Wye and the Great Revolt of 1381’ [in]Archaeologia Cantiana: being contributions to the history and archaeology of Kent - David de Saxe 2007

Article  A detailed local study of events in Wye, Kent

‘The defence of England and the Peasants’ Revolt’ [in] Viator: medieval and renaissance studies - Eleanor Searle 1972

Article  Considers the war with France as an important factor in the revolt

“A Revelle !” [in] Hochon's arrow: the social imagination of fourteenth-century texts

Chapter  A good consideration of the value of the chronicles as evidence by a literary critic

‘England: popular politics and social conflict’ [in] A companion to Britain in the later Middle Ages - Jane Whittle , S.H. Rigby

Chapter  A brief piece which sets the rebellion in the context of other forms of resistance before and after the Black Death

The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 - Dobson, R. B., American Council of Learned Societies 1970

Book  The best collection of documents relating to 1381, with just about everything you will need to refer to

The Chronica maiora of Thomas Walsingham, 1376-1422 - Walsingham, Thomas, Clark, James G. 2009184383510X,9781843835103

Book  Other edition available

The Anonimalle Chronicle, printed in ‘An account of the Rising of 1381’ [in] The English historical review - G.M. Trevellyan, 1898

Article  reprinted as appendix V in Charles Oman, The Great Revolt of 1381 (Greenhill, 1906), pp.186-205

Chronicles - Froissart, Jean, Brereton, Geoffrey 19810140442006

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Knighton's Chronicle 1337-1396 - Knighton, Henry, Martin, G.H. 19950198205031

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pp127-144 [in] English historical documents: Vol.4: 1327-1485

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• ‘The Peasants’ Revolt: Pleas in the Isle of Ely before the justices appointed … to punish and chastise insurgents’ [in] English economic history: select documents

Chapter 

The poll taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381: Pt.1: Bedfordshire-Leicestershire - Fenwick, Carolyn C., British Academy 19980197261868

Book 

The poll taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381: Pt. 2: Lincolnshire - Westmorland - Fenwick, Carolyn C., British Academy 20010197262287

Book 

'The Ordinance of Labourers, 1349,’ [in] English economic history: select documents

Chapter 

Armed Force and Civic Legitimacy in Jack Cade's Revolt, 1450 - M. Bohna 2003-06-01

Article  A recent article which stresses the ability of ordinary people to organised militarily, and their well developed understanding of politics

Jack Cade's rebellion of 1450 - Harvey, I.M.W. 19910198201605,9780198201601

Book  Essential: the only detailed study of the rebellion – now out of print – if you manage to buy a copy I will purchase it from you at the end of the course!

‘Cade’s rebellion 1450’ [in] The reign of King Henry VI: the exercise of royal authority, 1422-1461

Chapter  Another account of the rebellion, taking up one chapter in this monumental book

The historical literature of the Jack Cade Rebellion - Kaufman, Alexander L. 20090754667030,9780754667032

Book  A new book which analyses the chronicle accounts for the rebellion

‘Peasant Politics? Village community and the crown in 15th century England’ [in] The American historical review - R.B. Goheen 1991

Article  A wider perspective on peasant involvement in politics in this period

‘Deconstructing Cade's Rebellion: discourse and politics in the mid fifteenth century’ in Identity and insurgency in the late Middle Ages - David, Grummitt

Chapter  I have ordered this book for the library but haven’t had a chance to read it yet.

‘The Wiltshire risings of 1450 : political and economic discontent in mid-fifteenth century England’ [in] Southern history: a review of the history of Southern England - J.N. Hare 1982

Article  A detailed but quite short account of the rebellion in Wiltshire.

‘The lords and their tenants : conflict and stability in fifteenth-century Wiltshire’ [in] Conflict and community in southern England: essays in the social history of rural and urban labour from medieval to modern times - J.N. Hare

Chapter  Some useful background to Cade’s Rebellion in Wiltshire

The rebellion of Jack Cade, 1450 - Lyle, Helen M. 1950

Book  Only 24 pages long, this pamphlet offers a brief overview of the rebellion, with some helpful comments about the primary sources in the bibliography

The economic and social roots of medieval popular rebellion: Sussex in 1450-1451' [in] Economic history review - Mavis Mate 1992

Article  A detailed account of the rebellion in Sussex and its causes, taking a rather different view from Harvey

Trade and economic developments, 1450-1550: the experience of Kent, Surrey and Sussex - Mate, Mavis E. 20061843831899

Book  Good background information on economy and society in fifteenth century Kent, Sussex and Surrey

The agrarian history of England and Wales: Vol.3: 1348-1500 - Miller, Edward, Thirsk, Joan 19910521200741

Book  This has chapters on rural social structure and agriculture in Kent and Sussex by Mavis Mate

Late medieval England 1399-1509 - Pollard, A. J. 20000582031346,0582031354

Book  Good on the political background, with a short chapter on the rebellion

Henry VI. - Wolffe, Bertram 19810413320804

Book  Provides background and has a chapter on the rebellion

'The Bills of complaint of 1450’ [in] Jack Cade's rebellion of 1450

Chapter Suggested for student purchase The list of grievances or petitions from the rebellion

516-520 [in] The Brut: or the chronicles of England, Part 2

Chapter  just a few pages with a narrative of the rebellion

Bale’s Chronicle [in] Six town chronicles of England: edited from manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, the Library of St. John's College Oxford, the Library of Trinity College Dublin, and the Library of the Marquis of Bath at Longleat

Chapter  An account of the rebellion is on pp.129-34. An introduction to Bale’s chronicle is provided on pp.66-74. This chronicle is reprinted in A.R.Myers ed. English Historical Documents

pp159-162 also p276 [in] Chronicles of London

Chapter  An account of the rebellion is given on pp.159-62; see also p.276 for a list of notables killed, and introduction for discussion of the London chronicles as a source.

‘A Short English Chronicle’ and ‘Historical Memoranda of John Stow’ [in] Three fifteenth-century chronicles: with historical memoranda by John Stowe, and contemporary notes of occurrences written by him in the reign of Queen Elizabeth

Chapter  Sections relevant to the rebellion are pp.66-9 and pp.94-103, some of this reprinted in A.R.Myers ed. English Historical Documents

pp259-260, 264-269 [in] English historical documents: Vol.4: 1327-1485

Chapter  contains ‘An English Chronicle’, ‘Treasonable language in Sussex’, ‘A short English chronicle’, and ‘Bale’s chronicle’

The Paston letters: 1422-1509 A.D

Chapter  A letter from John Payn relating the losses he suffered during the rebellion in the service of Falstoff

Gregory’s chronicle [in] The historical collections of a citizen of London in the 15th century: containing: 1. John Page's poem on the siege of Rouen. 2. Lydgate's verses on the Kings of England. 3. William Gregory's chronicle of London

Chapter  containing Gregory’s chronicle, written by a London citizen, who was mayor of London in 1451. The section on the revolt is on pp.190-5

‘Participants of Sussex in Cade’s Rising, 1450’ [in] Sussex archaeological collections: relating to the history and antiquities of the counties of East and West Sussex - W.D. Cooper 1866

Article  A mixture of narrative and documents: includes a transcription of the list of Sussex men pardoned after the revolt on pp.23-30; note that the analysis is now outdated

‘John Cade’s followers in Kent’ [in] Archaeologia Cantiana: being contributions to the history and archaeology of Kent - W.D. Cooper 1868

Article  Similar to the Sussex article. Transcription on those from Kent who were pardoned is on pp.244-271. Documents sound but analysis outdated

The union of the two noble families of Lancaster and York, 1550 - Hall, Edward 1970

Book  A sixteenth century history which contains material on Cade’s Rebellion not found elsewhere

The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland: Volume 3 - Raphael Holinshed

Webpage 

The king's reformation: Henry VIII and the remaking of the English church - Bernard, G. W. 20070300122713,9780300122718

Book  The latest book on the topic by a reputable Tudor historian, looks at Pilgrimage of Grace too.]

Economic expansion and social change: England, 1500-1700 - Clay, C.G.A. 19840521259428

Book  Provides some basic background on sixteenth century economy and society – good for reference, but Wrightson is more up to date

Petitioning as popular politics in early sixteenth–century England - R. W. Hoyle 2002-11

Article  Historical Research

Taxation and the mid-Tudor crisis - R. W. Hoyle 1998-11

Article  Taxation as a factor behind rebellion

The shaping of a community: the rise and reformation of the English parish, c.1400-1560 - Kümin, Beat A. 19961859281648

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Popular politics and the English Reformation - Shagan, Ethan H., American Council of Learned Societies 2003

Book  Looks at the religious change of the English Reformation and how it effected popular involvement in the political process, including rebellion

The agrarian history of England and Wales: Vol.4: 1500-1640 - Thirsk, Joan 1967

Book  The chapters on ‘enclosing and engrossing’ are an important background to the events of 1549, but this book provides other useful background information

Riot, rebellion and popular politics in early modern England - Wood, Andy 2002 (electronic resource)

Book  eBook. Has short chapters on 1536 and the two 1549 rebellions, but also good background on the law and the state, and on riot more generally. An essential introduction to popular unrest in the period

Riot, rebellion and popular politics in early modern England - Wood, Andy 20020333637615,0333637623

Book  Has short chapters on 1536 and the two 1549 rebellions, but also good background on the law and the state, and on riot more generally. An essential introduction to popular unrest in the period

The Tudor regime - Williams, Penry 19790198224915

Book  A basic introduction to Tudor government

Earthly necessities: economic lives in early modern Britain - Wrightson, Keith 20000300083912

Book  The most up to date introduction to the social and economic history of the period: chapters 1-6 and 8 are relevant

The pilgrimage of grace and the politics of the 1530s - Hoyle, R. W. 2001 (electronic resource)

Book  eBook. Hoyle provides an up to date narrative of all the events, with some good background and analysis: this is the essential text on these rebellions

The Pilgrimage of Grace and the politics of the 1530s - Hoyle, Richard W. 2003019820874X,0199259062,9780198208747,9780199259069

Book  Hoyle provides an up to date narrative of all the events, with some good background and analysis: this is the essential text on these rebellions

The Pilgrimage of Grace and the politics of the 1530s - Hoyle, Richard W. 2003019820874X,0199259062,9780198208747,9780199259069

Book  A more detailed study by the other expert on this rebellion, looks particularly at the different rebel ‘hosts’ involved in the main thrust of the P.of G

PEERS, COMMONS AND GENTRY IN THE LINCOLNSHIRE REVOLT OF 1536 - S. J. Gunn 1989

Article  The most up to date reconsideration of the Lincolnshire rebellion, excellent on role of the gentry, should be read in conjunction with James’ earlier article in Past in Present

OBEDIENCE AND DISSENT IN HENRICIAN ENGLAND: THE LINCOLNSHIRE REBELLION 1536 - M. E. James 1970

Article  An important article that presented a new interpretation of how the gentry behaved during rebellions: a more subtle interpretation of the sources

The pilgrimage of Grace in the Lake Counties, 1536-7 - Harrison, Scott Michael 19810901050814

Book  A short book looking in detail at the P of G in north west England, where it had a different, and more popular, character than in Yorkshire

The Tudor polity and the pilgrimage of grace - M. L. Bush 2007-02

Article  Examines the popular concern for rights and liberties, and by extension the nature of government, during the P of G

Review Article A Progress Report on the Pilgrimage of Grace - M. L. BUSH 2005-10

Article  A review article where Bush, rather bizarrely, reviews his own work alongside Hoyle’s

.‘The Pilgrimage of Grace and the pilgrim tradition of holy war’ [in] Pilgrimage: the English experience from Becket to Bunyan - M.L Bush,

Chapter  examines the connection between the Pilgrimage of Grace, and the tradition of religious pilgrimage

‘The Richmondshire uprising of October 1536 and the Pilgrimage of Grace’ [in] Northern history: a review of the history of the north of England and the Borders - M. L Bush, 1993

Article  A detailed account of one arm of the rebellion

Captain Poverty and the Pilgrimage of Grace - M. L. Bush 1992-02

Article  An important examination of the term ‘captain poverty’, which was used as a pseudonym by participants in the rebellion

‘Up for the Commonweal’: The Significance of Tax Grievances in the English Rebellions of 1536 - M. L. BUSH 1991

Article  Does what it says

‘Popular religion and the Pilgrimage of Grace’ [in] Order and disorder in early modern England - C.S.L Davies,

Chapter  A sensible re-examination of the role of religion in popular involvement in this uprising

THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE RECONSIDERED - C. S. L. Davies 1968

Article  An early reconsideration of the history of the revolt, still worth reading

‘Secular and religious motivation in the Pilgrimage of Grace’ [in] The province of York: papers read at the fifth summer meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society - A.G Dickens,

Chapter  Does what it says, and if I remember rightly, argues for religious motivation

The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-1537, and the Exeter Conspiracy, 1538 - Dodds, Madeleine Hope, Dodds, Ruth 1915

Book  An old classic, perhaps rather dated in their interpretation and inaccurate on some details, but still a good outline

The last days of the Lancashire monasteries and the Pilgrimage of Grace - Haigh, Christopher 19690719011507

Book  Essential reading: a detailed account of the connection between the dissolution of the monasteries and rebellion in Lancashire

pp118-138 [in] Reformation and resistance in Tudor Lancashire

Chapter  Good context, plus a chapter on the P of G, pp.118-38

Lincs Revolt [in] Tudor Lincolnshire

Chapter  Good context, plus of chapter on the Lincs Revolt, pp.22-38

‘The first Earl of Cumberland: A reputation reassessed’ [in] Northern history: a review of the history of the north of England and the Borders - R.W Hoyle, 1986

Article  Looking in detail at the role of the Earl of Cumberland during the rebellion

Faction, Feud and Reconciliation amongst the Northern English Nobility, 1525-1569 - R. W. Hoyle 1999-10

Article  Background on why and how the nobility of northern England was divided by disputes during this period

Robert Bowes and the Pilgrimage of Grace - Christine Newman 1997

Book  Not in the library – see tutor for photocopy

Tudor York - Palliser, D.M 19800198218788

Book  Some useful context, plus see P of G in the index

‘The Pilgrimage of Grace and the public sphere’ [in] The politics of the public sphere in early modern England - Ethan H., Shagan,

Chapter  An up to date examination of popular involvement in politics as evidenced by the P of G

Land and politics in the England of Henry VIII: the West Riding of Yorkshire : 1530-46 - Smith, R.B. 19700198223250

Book  Some good context but also contains material directly related to the rebellion.

The Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol.11, July-December 1536 [in] British History Online - James Gairdner 1888

Chapter  Essential documents relating to the Lincolnshire rebellion and Pilgrimage of Grace in autumn 1536

The pilgrimage of grace and the politics of the 1530s - Hoyle, R. W. 2001 (electronic resource)

Book  Has section in back (pp.455-64) containing ‘select documents’ which include the Lincolnshire articles 9 Oct 1536; Aske’s Proclamation to the City of York 15-16 Oct 1536; The oath ?24 Oct 1536; The Hampole Articles ?27 Oct 1536; instructions for Sir Thos Hilton and the Pontefract articles, 4 Dec 1536; opinions of the pseudo-convocation at Pontefract 4 Dec 1536

The Pilgrimage of Grace and the politics of the 1530s - Hoyle, Richard W. 2003019820874X,0199259062,9780198208747,9780199259069

Book  Has section in back (pp.455-64) containing ‘select documents’ which include the Lincolnshire articles 9 Oct 1536; Aske’s Proclamation to the City of York 15-16 Oct 1536; The oath ?24 Oct 1536; The Hampole Articles ?27 Oct 1536; instructions for Sir Thos Hilton and the Pontefract articles, 4 Dec 1536; opinions of the pseudo-convocation at Pontefract 4 Dec 1536

THE PILGRIMAGE OP GRACE - MARY BATESON 1890

Article 

ASKE'S EXAMINATION - MARY BATESON 1890

Article 

‘New records of the Pilgrimage of Grace’ [in] Yorkshire archaeological journal - A.G. Dickens 1937

Article 

‘Thomas Master's narrative of the Pilgrimage of Grace’ [in] Northern history: a review of the history of the north of England and the Borders - R.W Hoyle, 1985

Article 

The Dr.Farmer Chetham MS.: being a commonplace-book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I and Charles I. - Grosart, Alexander B. 1873

Book 

A Lost Source for the Rising of 1536 in north-west England - R. W. Hoyle 2003-02-01

Article 

English historical documents: Vol.5: 1485-1558 - Williams, C.H., Douglas, David C. 19670413233200

Book 

British Library EThOS

Webpage  Digital copy available via EThOS; covers not only the petitions but the participants and causes – should have been published but never was

‘The south-western rebellion of 1549’ in] Southern history: a review of the history of Southern England - Joyce Youings 1979

Article  The first comprehensive re-examination of the western rebellion since Rose-Troup: essential

‘Local government and the south-western rebellion of 1549’[in] Southern history: a review of the history of Southern England - Helen Speight 1996

Article  The most up to date article on the Western Rebellion

Propaganda and the Tudor state: political culture in the West Country - Cooper, J. P. D. 20030199263876

Book  Doesn’t sound relevant but it is – particularly good on the local political background to the Western Rebellion

KETT'S REBELLION IN CONTEXT - Diarmaid MacCulloch 1979

Article  A comprehensive re-examination of Kett’s rebellion: essential

Lords and Tenants in Kett's Rebellion 1549 - J. Whittle 2010-04-22

Article  New research into who exactly the rebels were, and events away from Kett and Norwich in Norfolk in 1549

The 1549 rebellions and the making of early modern England - Wood, Andy 20070521832063,9780521832069

Book  Another new book, despite its title this has more on Kett than anything else, plus some excellent background material on how to understand rebellion in this era.

The government policy of Protector Somerset - Bush, M.L. 1975071315800X

Book  Best book on the political background to 1549, although now somewhat superseded by Shagan

Debate. Protector Somerset and the 1549 rebellions: a post-revision questioned - M. Bush 2000-02-01

Article  Bush’s reply to Shagan’s 1999 article in the same journal

Revolt of the peasantry, 1549 - Cornwall, J.C.K. 19770710086768

Book  A rather disappointing book as presents little that is new, but still provides a reasonably reliable narrative of both rebellions from the traditional sources.

Rebellion and riot: popular disorder in England during the reign of Edward VI - Beer, Barrett L. 20050873388402,9780873388405

Book  Very similar to Cornwall’s book, just a few bits and pieces of original insight and evidence.

Protector Somerset and the 1549 rebellions: new sources and new perspectives - E. Shagan 1999-02-01

Article  Publishing new letters thought to be from Somerset to the rebels, but also presenting a new interpretation of the rebellions.

The later Reformation in England, 1547-1603 - MacCulloch, Diarmaid 19900333419286,0333419294

Book  Some good background in the first part of this book

British Library EThOS: Search Results

Webpage  unpublished PhD available via EThOS. Concentrates on the rebellions away from Kett and the Western Rebellion that year, argues that unrest was almost national in scope. Has a very good introduction looking at general issues of rebellion and the situation in 1549. She is writing a book but it’s not out yet.

Agricultural history review - British Agricultural History Society 1953-

Journal  A detailed examination of a new tax that may have been one of the causes of the revolt. Available on the web: go to http://www.bahs.org.uk/ and click on search backnumbers.

‘The poll tax and the census of sheep 1549’ - M.S. Beresford

Website  A detailed examination of a new tax that may have been one of the causes of the revolt. (1953) 9-15 and 2 (1954) 15-29. Available on the web: go to http://www.bahs.org.uk/ and click on search backnumbers

Tudor Cornwall - Chynoweth, John 20020752426214

Book  Some good background on gentry and local government, and a short section on the rebellion.]

The voices of Morebath: Reformation and rebellion in an English village - Duffy, Eamon 20010300091850

Book  A detailed local history of the Reformation in one village, Morebath in north Devon. Notable in that the village sent rebels to the siege of Exeter. An excellent and readable book.

Exeter, 1540-1640: the growth of an English country town - MacCaffrey, Wallace Trevethic 1975

Book  This book only contains a little on the rebellion, mostly taken from Hooker, but provides useful context nonetheless. Other edition available

Appendices G, I, L, M [in] The Western Rebellion of 1549: an account of the insurrections in Devonshire and Cornwall against religious innovations in the reign of Edward VI.

Chapter  The classic account of the rebellion, and still the only full-length treatment of the topic. Definitely worth a read. Appendices G, I, J, K, L, M

Tudor Cornwall: portrait of a society - Rowse, Alfred Leslie 1957

Book  Other edition available

‘The dissidence of despair: rebellion and identity in early modern Cornwall’ {in} Journal of British studies - M. Stoyle 1999

Article  Journal of British Studies

The blind devotion of the people: popular religion and the English Reformation - Whiting, Robert 19890521356067,9780521424394

Book  Important background but also contains new evidence directly relevant to the western rebellion.

Local responses to the English Reformation - Whiting, Robert 19980312211856,0333642449,0333642457,9780312211851,9780333642443,9780333642450

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‘Lord Russell and the western counties, 1539-1555’ [in] Journal of British studies - Diane Willen 1975

Article  Useful background on Lord Russell, who was responsible for keeping order in the west of England, and thus for putting down the western rebellion

Tudor rebellions - Fletcher, Anthony, MacCulloch, Diarmaid 19970582289904

Book  Contains a list of demands from the western rebels, a letter from a gentleman in Devon describing the rebellion, Philip Nichols answer to the commons, order to the justices of peace of Devon to put down the rebellion, and a letter to Lord Russell from the council. Other editions available

The description of the Citie of Excester - Hooker, John, Harte, Walter J., Schlopp, J.W., Tapley-Soper, H. 1919-47

Book  An eye-witness account, written some years later, by the John Hooker, who was resident in Exeter during the rebellion

‘Life of Sir Peter Carew’ [in] Archaeologia: or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity - John Vowell 1940

Article  Hooker’s account of the Life of Sir Peter Carew, who was one of the men responsible for putting down the rebellion

Troubles connected with the Prayer Book of 1549: documents now mostly for the first time printed from the originals in the Record Office, the Petyt Collection in the Library of the Inner Temple, the Council Book and the British Museum - Pocock, Nicholas 1884

Book  A series of letters and orders mostly from Somerset to Lord Russell during the rebellion, and also ‘Udall’s answer to the commoners of Devonshire and Cornwall’: a lengthy contemporary response to the rebel petition

The survey of Cornwall - Carew, Richard, Chynoweth, John, Orme, Nicholas, Walsham, Alexandra 2004090185347X

Book  Modern edition available. Has some brief descriptions of events in Cornwall during the revolt, from a gentry perspective. Other editions available

Foxe's Book of martyrs: select narratives - Foxe, John, King, John N. 2009 (electronic resource)

Book  eBook Vol.2, first half (1583), p.1305 Vol.2, Image 508 of copy from Huntington Library on EEBO. Provides a short history of the rebellion and reproduces some documents

Foxe's Book of martyrs: select narratives - Foxe, John, King, John N. 20090199236844,9780199236848

Book  Vol.2, first half (1583), p.1305 Vol.2, Image 508 of copy from Huntington Library on EEBO. Provides a short history of the rebellion and reproduces some documents

FLOCK MANAGEMENT IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES - K. J. ALLISON 1958-08

Article  This article looks at gentry sheep flocks and foldcourses, one of the grievances behind the revolt.

Ket's Rebellion, 1549 - Bindoff, Stanley Thomas 1949

Book  Historical Association Pamphlet, London, 1949) [A short pamphlet which provides one of the best introductions to the rebellion.

AGRARIAN AGITATION IN MID-SIXTEENTH-CENTURY NORFOLK: A PETITION OF 1553 - R. W. HOYLE 2001-6-25

Article  Historical Association Pamphlet, London, 1949) [A short pamphlet which provides one of the best introductions to the rebellion.

KETT'S REBELLION IN CONTEXT - Julian Cornwall 1981

Article  A brief reply to Julian Cornwall after criticisms of MacCulloch’s 1979 article, but contains some additional research

‘Bondmen under the Tudors’ [in] Law and government under the Tudors: essays presented to Sir Geoffrey Elton ... on the occasion of his retirement - D. MacCulloch

Chapter  Background on the survival of serfdom into the sixteenth century, one of the rebel grievances mentioned in the petition

Suffolk and the Tudors : politics and religion in an English county, 1500-1600 - Diarmaid MacCulloch, 1986

Book  eBook, Background on the situation in Suffolk, which MacCulloch demonstrated, was heavily involved in the rebellion

Suffolk and the Tudors: politics and religion in an English county, 1500-1600 - MacCulloch, Diarmaid 19860198229143

Book  Background on the situation in Suffolk, which MacCulloch demonstrated, was heavily involved in the rebellion

Counties and Communities: Essays on East Anglian History presented to Hassell Smith - C. Rawcliffe, R Virgoe, R Wilson

Book  Not currently in stock. Some additional information about possible gentry sympathisers to the 1549 rebellion.

The Townshends and Their World: Gentry, Law, and Land in Norfolk c.1450-1551 - C. E. Moreton

Book  Not currently in stock. A history of a Norfolk gentry family, including some material about the rebellion

Kett’s Rebellion in Norfolk - F W Russell

Book  Not currently in stock The classic account of the rebellion, still a useful book

Protector Somerset and the 1549 rebellions: new sources and new perspectives - E. Shagan 1999-02-01

Article  An important article which reassesses the policies of Somerset and prints some neglected documents about the revolt. See also replies by Bush and Bernard in English Historical Review, Feb. 2000

The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk 1440-1580 - Jane Whittle 2000

Book  eBook. A detailed study of the rural economy of Norfolk in the period of the revolt provides useful background, chapter 2 on the manorial system, and chapter 4 on social differentiation, are the most relevant

The development of agrarian capitalism: land and labour in Norfolk, 1440-1580 - Whittle, Jane 20000198208421

Book  A detailed study of the rural economy of Norfolk in the period of the revolt provides useful background, chapter 2 on the manorial system, and chapter 4 on social differentiation, are the most relevant

‘Kett’s Rebellion’ [in] Medieval Norwich - A. Wood

Chapter  An up to date account of the rebellion in Norwich.

Tudor rebellions - Fletcher, Anthony, MacCulloch, Diarmaid 2008 (electronic resource)

Book  eBook and Book. Kett’s petition, an excerpt from Sotherton’s account of the rebellion

Kett’s Rebellion in Norfolk - F W Russell

Book  Not currently in stock. Various documents in the appendices, including the indictments of Robert and William Kett.

The History of the City and County of Norwich - Francis Blomefield

Webpage  Access on ECCO. An eighteenth century history by the historian of Norfolk which contains some material not found elsewhere

Norfolk’s Furies, or a View of Kett’s Camp Early - Alexander Neville

Webpage  Access on EEBO. Neville provided the first book length treatment of the rebellion in the late 16th century, this is the English version published in 1615. One of the main sources for the history of the rebellion along with Sotherton

‘ “The Commoyson in Norfolk, 1549”: narrative of popular rebellion in sixteenth-century England’ [in] Journal of medieval and renaissance studies - B.L. Beer 1976

Article 

Protector Somerset and the 1549 rebellions: new sources and new perspectives - E. Shagan 1999-02-01

Article  An important article which reassesses the policies of Somerset and prints some neglected documents about the revolt

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, iii (1586) - R. Holinshed,

Webpage  Access on EEBO. Holinshed contains little that is not found elsewhere