Events of Pilgrimage of grace Linconshire

• Why

  • Government commissions in the county inspecting, collecting tax and closing monasteries.
  • Rumours that parish churches were going to close
• Who - leaders

  • Nicholas Melton (Shoemaker) then the gentry
• Who - participants

  • commoners
• What and when.

  • 1536
  • 2nd October - Nicholas leads an uprising of 3000 commoners
  • 4th of october Dr Raynes, chancellor of the bishop of Lincoln was murdered by a mob
  • 7th October- at least 10,000 rebels marched on the county town of Lincoln
• The demands (articles) outlined what the rebels were angry with for example, the dissolution of the monasteries and high taxes.
• Henry sent a message to the rebels threatening extreme punishment and destruction of their property if they didn’t stop. He sent 3,000 men to meet the rebels.
• The rebels back down because they didn’t want to be accused of treason they ask for a royal pardon and Henry lets them off. By 11th of October it was over.