OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World) British depth study with historic environment: The English Reformation c.1520-c.1550 + Castles: form and function c.1000-1750 June 2018 question paper J410/12

Explain why the monasteries were dissolved between 1534 and 1540.

Study Sources A–C.

‘People welcomed the religious reforms of Henry VIII and Edward VI between 1534 and c.1550.’ How far do Sources A–C convince you that this statement is correct? Use the sources and your

knowledge to explain your answer.

() Spelling, punctuation and grammar and the use of specialist terminology

Source A

I will pray for the Pope as the chief head of Christ’s Church, and I will advise all men to do so secretly. But we may say nothing openly, for these Protestant villains are watching us all closely.

Comments made by a London priest speaking in 1536. The comments were reported back to Thomas Cromwell by one of Cromwell’s spies.

A woodcut produced around 1550. The title was ‘The Coronation of King Edward the Sixth, Popery banished True Religion Restored.’

Source C

In the time of the outrageous and stupid religious division in England, all goodness and godliness was rejected. The good and holy Catholic faith and church was denounced with insult. The honest faith of good men was attacked as wrong and superstitious. And so by devious ways evil practices were sown and planted by Protestant preachers. The result was great disorder in the land. Wicked people took control of God’s holy Catholic Church.

Edmund Bonner, a Catholic nobleman, writing soon after the death of Edward VI in 1553. Bonner was a supporter of the Catholic Queen Mary who succeeded Edward VI.

Explain how Framlingham Castle changed between 1100 and c.1250.

Study Sources D and E.

Which of these sources is more useful to a historian studying the history of Framlingham Castle

from c.1300 to 1750?

Source D

The King’s Treasurer is ordered to pay Oliver Redham and William Godwyn what is owed to them by William Mouncy. William Mouncy borrowed this money from them when he was constable of Framlingham castle to repair castle buildings and provision the castle. He did this by order of the King.

An extract from an official document called the Close Rolls, in 1310. The Close Rolls was a list of orders issued by the King.

An aerial photograph of the remains of Framlingham Castle.