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Wyatt’s Rebellion
    2019-07-29  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

James Baquet

King Henry VIII had had difficulty in producing a male heir. His first three wives — Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, and Jane Seymour —bore Mary, Elizabeth and Edward respectively. Henry’s last three wives had no issue.

When Henry died, Edward, a sickly child, became King Edward VI at age 9. He died at 15, never having fully gained power (the country was ruled through regents). Edward was a Protestant, the first English monarch to be raised as such. He continued the reformation his father had started (because the Pope wouldn’t grant Henry a divorce), but when Edward died, his oldest sister Mary ascended the throne, and restored the Catholic Church to power. Her violent persecution of Protestants in the realm earned her the sobriquet “Bloody Mary.”

Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger, though raised a Roman Catholic, had visited Spain with his father, and had been appalled by the Spanish Inquisition’s brutal treatment of people for believing differently from others. Thus, when it became known that Queen Mary planned to marry Philip of Spain, Wyatt set himself against the planned nuptials. This led, in 1554 (barely six months into Mary’s reign), to what is known as “Wyatt’s Rebellion.”

He did not act alone. His co-conspirators included Sir James Croft, Sir Peter Carew and Henry Grey, whose daughter Lady Jane Grey was Edward VI’s first cousin once removed and was called the “Nine Days’ Queen” for her effort to take the throne after Edward and before Mary. Their plan was to place Mary’s half-sister Elizabeth on the throne (which did, in fact, happen a few years later).

The rebels failed, in part because the peasants on whom they would rely were largely Catholics. Only Wyatt was successful in raising a force outside of London to converge on the city. With 4,000 men, he insisted that the Queen be turned over to his charge. This hubris caused the people of the city, who were originally sympathetic, to turn against him. He was arrested, tortured, beheaded, and quartered; 90 of his men suffered similar fates.

Wyatt’s family lost their titles and lands, but these were restored under Elizabeth.

Vocabulary:

Which word above means:

1. act of improving something that has gone wrong

2. shocked, horrified

3. excessive pride

4. wedding

5. oppression because of religious or political beliefs

6. ones who plan something together

7. one who inherits

8. non-Catholic

9. nickname

10. cut into four pieces

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