Pilgrimage of Grace 1536- Threat Level

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PoG- Legitimacy
-advocating for survival of monasteries
-didn't want rise of church lootings
-Catholics may want to join due to loss of saints days and other Catholic traditions
-started after Henry destroyed a few small monasteries
-Cromwell and Cranmer were unpopular,
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PoG- Timing
-Lincolnshire had just happened so Henry wasn't in good place to fight rebels
-coincided with monasteries closing, angering people meaning they might join
-two years after Act of Supremacy political motive
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PoG- Support
-ranged from peasants, to farmers to gentry and nobility such as Lord Darcey and Sir William
-members of clergy
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PoG- Resources
-became 3,000 men by end
-only a few hundred joined Bigod's
-armed members, even clergy
-not greatly resourced but very committed
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PoG- Leadership
-Robert Aske- member of gentry, trained to be lawyer in London, very committed, wanted it to be a peaceful pilgrimage, not a rebellion, didn't oppose king but Cromwell
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PoG- Geography
- went from Yorkshire to places like Kendall and Carlisle
-captured Barnard Castle
-captured port of Hull and Pontefract Castle
-far from London, hard to negotiate with
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Card 2

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-Lincolnshire had just happened so Henry wasn't in good place to fight rebels
-coincided with monasteries closing, angering people meaning they might join
-two years after Act of Supremacy political motive

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PoG- Timing

Card 3

Front

-ranged from peasants, to farmers to gentry and nobility such as Lord Darcey and Sir William
-members of clergy

Back

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Card 4

Front

-became 3,000 men by end
-only a few hundred joined Bigod's
-armed members, even clergy
-not greatly resourced but very committed

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

-Robert Aske- member of gentry, trained to be lawyer in London, very committed, wanted it to be a peaceful pilgrimage, not a rebellion, didn't oppose king but Cromwell

Back

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