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Aske, Robert

A Dictionary of British History | 2004 | | Copyright

Aske, Robert (d. 1537). A Lincolnshire attorney, Aske led the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536–7, a rising against the dissolution of the monasteries and in favour of the old religion. An outbreak in Lincolnshire was followed by Aske's Yorkshire rising, strong enough to persuade Henry VIII to offer pardons and agree in November 1536 to grant Aske an audience. But after renewed activity in January 1537, Aske was seized, and in July executed in York. A moderate who had tried to restrain his followers and urged them to trust Henry's good faith, Aske paid with his life for such naïvety.

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Aske, Robert

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Copyright

Aske, Robert (d. 1537), leader of the ‘Pilgrimage of Grace’. In 1536 he put himself at the head of the ‘Pilgrimage’ when rebellion broke out in Yorkshire. After treating with the royal leaders, in 1537 he returned northward with a promise of the redress of grievances. After a fresh outbreak of violence Aske was seized, condemned for treason, and hanged in chains.

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