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Pilgrimage of Grace
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Pilgrimage of Grace
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(Historical Terms) a rebellion in 1536 in N England against the Reformation and Henry VIII's government


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Viewers will see Henry, brother-in-law Charles Brandon (Henry Cavill) and adviser Thomas Cromwell ( James Frain) halting a rebellion, later called The Pilgrimage of Grace, led by Robert Aske (played by Braveheart actor Gerard McSorley).
Viewers will see Henry, brother-in-law Charles Brandon (Henry Cavill) and adviser Thomas Cromwell ( James Frain) halting a rebellion, later called The Pilgrimage of Grace, led by Robert Aske (played by Braveheart actor Gerard McSorley).
As a yeoman he was not just an in-between man straddling the worlds of gentry and non-gentry alike, but was a forest man, known to produce England's best archers but closely linked to the men who carried the local government at its lowest level, independent-minded and not afraid to remonstrate against royal authority - as happened in Cade's rebellion and the Pilgrimage of Grace.
 
 
 
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