Question 1
8 marksQ3 Explain two ways they were similar
Explain two ways in which the barons' opposition to King John and Parliament's opposition to Charles I were similar.
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Question 2
8 marksQ3 Explain two ways they were similar
Explain two ways in which the Peasants' Revolt and the Brixton Riots were similar.
Question 3
8 marksStudy Source A below, then answer the question.
Source A: From a chronicle of the kings of England written by a monk at an abbey in eastern England in about 1220, four years after King John's death. The abbey's lands had been taken into the King's hands during his quarrel with the Pope. The chronicle was written for the monks of the abbey and for other churchmen.
Written for practice: not a real historical source.
In the days of King John the kingdom groaned. After he lost Normandy to the King of France he demanded scutage again and again from barons who would not sail with him, and seized the lands of those who could not pay. When he quarrelled with the Pope over the Archbishop of Canterbury, our churches were shut for six years and the dead were buried without prayers. At last the northern barons would serve him no longer, and at Runnymede they forced him to set his seal to a charter of liberties. Within weeks he begged the Pope to cancel it, and war followed.
Q1 How useful is the source
How useful is Source A to an historian studying the barons' dissatisfaction with King John's rule?
Explain your answer using Source A and your contextual knowledge.
Question 4
8 marksStudy Source A below, then answer the question.
Source A: From a letter written by a London merchant, whose city had supported Simon de Montfort in his war against Henry III, to his brother in Bristol in February 1265, while the parliament summoned by de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, was sitting at Westminster.
Written for practice: not a real historical source.
Brother, you would scarcely know this city. Since the fighting at Lewes the Earl has kept the King and the King's son in his own keeping, and governs in the King's name. He has summoned to Westminster not only bishops and great lords, but two citizens from each of our chief towns and two knights from every shire. Men of our own guild sit among them, which no merchant here can remember before. The Earl says the realm shall no longer be ruled by the King's foreign kinsmen, who have emptied our purses. Yet certain lords grumble that one earl has merely taken the King's place.
Q1 How useful is the source
How useful is Source A to an historian studying the role of Simon de Montfort?
Explain your answer using Source A and your contextual knowledge.