Pilgrimage of Grace
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Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536–7. The Pilgrimage was a widespread northern rising against Henry VIII's religious policies and the greatest challenge to his position during his reign. It seems to have been triggered by the
dissolution of the smaller monasteries, began at Louth in Lincolnshire, spreading to Yorkshire and then to Cumberland and Westmorland. The rebels, who took the badge of the five wounds of Christ and called themselves pilgrims, were led by Robert
Aske and for some weeks commanded overwhelming numbers. Henry's response was to temporize, to offer pardons, and to attempt to split gentry from commoners. By the spring of 1537 most of the rebels had dispersed and he was able to take a bloody revenge on the pilgrims. Aske was executed at York and Lord
Darcy, who had surrendered Pontefract castle to the rebels, was beheaded on Tower Hill. The weakness of royal control which the rising had demonstrated led at once to the establishment of the
Council of the North in October 1537 to reassert authority.
J. A. Cannon
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The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
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The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s
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The Pilgrimage of Grace: A Study of the Rebel Armies of October 1536
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Henry VIII and the Pilgrimage of Grace (1537).
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words
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The Pilgrimage of Grace: A Study of the Rebel Armies of October 1536.(Brief Article)
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Amazing Grace; Walking Home: A Woman's Pilgrimage on the Appalachian Trail.
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English lessons: when two people from opposite sides of the Atlantic wed, how do they keep the home fires burning? A report from Joe Queenan, author of the recently published Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country.(SOCIAL GRACES)
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Pilgrimage to see pope shaped Mainer's future ; Paul Dumais 'began to pray for the grace of a vocation as a priest' after hearing John Paul II speak in 1993.
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Pilgrimage of Grace
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pilgrimage of Grace 1536, rising of Roman Catholics in...Although Aske and other leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace tried to prevent this new...The repression in N England after the Pilgrimage of Grace put an end to open opposition...
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Pilgrimage of Grace, the
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Pilgrimage of Grace, the. A series of risings in N. England in 1536–7. There was widespread hatred of T. Cromwell and of government...
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Grace, Pilgrimage of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Grace, Pilgrimage of. See PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE .
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pilgrimage
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
pilgrimage a journey made to some sacred place, as an act of religious devotion. Pilgrimage of Grace the name given to a series of popular risings in northern England in 1536 and 1537 opposing the dissolution of the monasteries and other features of the Reformation.
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Yorkshire
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...monasteries in 1536 and resentment of an increasingly centralized government in the south found outlet in Robert Aske's Pilgrimage of Grace , but this failed and monastic lands passed to loyal or opportunist families (Cholmley, Fairfax, Ramsden, Ingram...
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