The Lincolnshire Rising and the Pilgrimage of Grace

• The Lincolnshire Rising and the Pilgrimage of Grace


  • Comprised the largest single rebellion in the history of Tudor England
• Second and more militant rising


  1. Started in Richmond

  2. Spread west into Cumberland, Westmorland and north Lancashire

  3. Spread north into Durham

  4. Spread southwest into the Craven area of the West Riding of Yorkshire
• Rebels


  • More radicalised
  • More hostile towards the gentry because of the strength of their grievances against their landlords
• Opposition to the impact of Henry VIII's religious changes figured among the rebels' grievances