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Henry VIII — Amicable Grant Resistance at Lavenham Suffolk 1525

1525
England
Era
Tudor
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated
Henry VIII / Cardinal Wolsey
Forces
ducal authority
VS
Victor
Commons of Suffolk
Forces
Lavenham cloth workers and commons of several thousand
Outcome
Amicable Grant dropped; Wolsey humiliated; Henry pardoned the commons; no violence.
The Battle

History & Significance

The cloth workers and commons of Lavenham were among the most vocal resisters of Wolseys Amicable Grant forced loan. Several thousand men gathered in a near-riotous assembly that forced Wolsey and the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk to negotiate and ultimately abandon the grant.

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Scheduled Monuments near Henry VIII — Amicable Grant Resistance at Lavenham Suffolk 1525

Iron gas-holder, Lavenham gasworks
Scheduled monument · ~0.2 miles
Market cross
Scheduled monument · ~0.2 miles
Cast iron road bridge SE of Bridge Farm
Scheduled monument · ~1.2 miles
Mound of Milden Castle
Scheduled monument · ~2.8 miles
Moated site at Moat Farm, 230m north east of St Peter's Church
Scheduled monument · ~3.1 miles
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