The Suppression of the Rebellions

• Lincolnshire Rebellion


  1. Quickly collapsed

  2. Rebels occupied York and Hull

  3. Rebels captured Pontefract Castle
• The rebellions caused great alarm to both the king and many of his ministers
• King sent an army north

  1. Under the command of the Duke of Norfolk

  2. Norfolk encountered the rebels near Doncaster

  3. Norfolk was hugely outnumbered
• Norfolk was hugely outnumbered


  Norfolk sought to defuse the rebellion
• Norfolk sought to defuse the rebellion

  1. Issued a pardon

  2. Promised dissolved monasteries would be restored

  3. Promised a free parliament established
• Pilgrimage of Grace


  A rebellion that shook Henry VIII
• Henry VIII's record in dealing with the rebellion was poor
• Henry VIII ignored warnings about the increase in resentment which he did not wish to hear
• The Duke of Norfolk showed common sense and flexibility in dealing with the Pilgrimage of Grace
• The Pilgrimage of Grace did not slow the pace of religious change