Pilgrimage of Grace
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- Created on: 19-10-18 09:05
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- Pilgrimage of Grace
- economic causes
- North South divide
- agricultural pressure --> pressure on food supplies
- inflation
- increased taxation
- religious causes
- wanted to restore local monasteries > Pope
- desire to keep them as economic units in the North
- fear of heresy
- Act of Supremacy of 1534
- wanted to restore local monasteries > Pope
- Lincolnshire Rising (1st)
- rumour that Commissioners were taking away church money and giving to the King
- 1536, 3000 men forced commissioners to flee Louth after priest instigated
- joined by gentry
- 10,000 towards Lincoln--> collapsed when men fled
- Yorkshire Rising (PoG, 2nd)
- led by lawyer Aske (emphasised religion)
- mobs besieged castles e.g. Carlisle
- marched to York and restored religious houses
- Earl of Derby given large control; others surrended
- Negotiating and setting out demands
- Earl of Norfolk convinced H8 to agree to 30,000 Pilgrims demands to trick them
- Pilgrims found out
- Aske and Earl of Darcy set manifesto
- support began to wane e.g. gentlemen pledging to Norfolk
- Earl of Norfolk convinced H8 to agree to 30,000 Pilgrims demands to trick them
- Bigod's Rebellion (3rd)
- Sir Francis Bigod against H8 claims
- planned to capture Norfolk as use as mediator
- disaster as lacked support
- Aftermath
- insurgent leaders hung/executed
- gentry and commonality had fallen out
- Abbots and monasteries confiscated by crown
- political causes
- against James V of Scotland being heir
- Cromwell seen as threat
- Statute of Uses
- economic causes
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