The Pilgrimage of Grace

Seems Henry has a lot to answer for!

You may not have heard of it, but The Pilgrimage of Grace was the single largest rebellion in Tudor history and took place in the North of England between October 1536 and January 1537. The common folk were demonstrating primarily against the dissolution of the monasteries and the Reformation, brought about because of King Henry VIII’s ‘great matter’ (his divorce from Catherine of Aragon) and the subsequent break with Rome.