Midland Revolt
Channel: all the knowledge of the universe PRINCIPIA
Date: 2022-01-12

Midland Revolt, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10054101 / CC BY SA 3.0

#Rebellions_in_England
#Conflicts_in_1607
#Enclosures
#1607_in_England
#History_of_Northamptonshire
#History_of_Warwickshire
#History_of_Leicestershire
#Military_history_of_Leicestershire
#Military_history_of_Warwickshire
The Midland Revolt was a popular uprising which occurred in the Midlands of England in 1607.
Beginning in late April in Northamptonshire, in Haselbech, Pytchley and Rushton, it spread to Warwickshire and Leicestershire in May.
The riots were a protest against the enclosure of common land and drew considerable support, led by "Captain Pouch", otherwise John Reynolds, a tinker said to be from Desborough, Northamptonshire.
He claimed authority from the King and Lord of Heaven to destroy enclosures and promised to protect protesters with the contents of his pouch, carried by his side, which would keep them from harm.
He urged them to use no violence in their efforts to destroy the enclosures.
Three thousand were recorded at Hillmorton, Warwickshire and 5000 at Cotesbach, Leicestershire.
A curfew was imposed in Leicester, for fear its citizens would stream out to join the riots.
They pulled down a gibbet erected there as a warning.
St Faith's Church, Newton The culmination of the revolt was the Newton Rebellion.
In early June, over a thousand protesters, including women and children, gathered in Newton, near Kettering, Northamptonshire to protest against the enclosures by pulling out hedges and filling ditches.
King James I ordered his deputy lieutenants in Northamptonshire to put down the riots.
The Treshams – the family at Newton and their better-known Roman Catholic cousins at Rushton Hall under Francis Tresham, who had been involved
two years earlier in the Gunpowder Plot and had apparently died in the Tower of London — were unpopular for voracious enclosure of land.
Sir Thomas Tresham of Rushton was the gentleman "most odious in this country".
The old Roman Ca...